Quotes 121 till 140 of 186.
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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it's not poisonHighway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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