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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • James Russell Lowell Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Karl Popper Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Barbara Boxer Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Edwin Way Teale Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, ''love'' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • William Shakespeare Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • William Shakespeare Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bob Ehrlich Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Bill Bailey Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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