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  • Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • John Gay What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Napoleon Hill What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • William Wordsworth What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bertrand Russell What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sydney Smith What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Boris Pasternak What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Cohen What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Satchel Paige What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Beth Littleford What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.
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