half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them - Martin Henry Fischer
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half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it - Robert Frost
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happiness is a gift that comes to he who did not seek it
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happiness is a marvellous thing: the more you give, the more you are left with
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happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults
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happiness is getting on with yourself
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happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived - Jonathan Swift
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happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony - Mahatma Gandhi
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happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember - Oscar Levant
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happiness lies in being free, that is, in desiring nothing
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happy is he who laughs at himself; he will not go short of entertainment - Habib Bourguiba
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happy is not the man to whom fortune can give nothing more, but the one from whom it can take nothing away
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have the courage to think
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having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things - Oscar Wilde
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having no vices adds nothing to virtue
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he has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire - Winston Churchill
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he hoisted his own flag high....so that he didn't have to look at it
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he is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature
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he is weak as he did not doubt enough and desired to arrive at some conclusions
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he makes no friend who never made a foe - Alfred Tennyson
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he who asks for nothing expects everything
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he who does not punish evil, commands it to be done
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he who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals
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he who knows how to laugh is master of the world
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he who pays no attention to what his neighbour does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time
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heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history - George Bernard Shaw
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help me understand what I am telling you about and I will explain it better
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here even the law of the jungle is not respected
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here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I - John Dryden
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here lives a free man. No one serves him
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heresy is only another word for freedom of thought - Graham Greene
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high school in our time amounts to little more than day care for virtual adults in which some learning might incidentally take place, much of it of dubious value - James Howard Kunstler
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high-end journalism can and should bite any hand that tries to feed it - David Simon
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his conscience was clear; indeed he never used it
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his designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage - Henry Fielding
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historians use documents to lie, novelists use their imagination to lie
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history shows us that when people discover barbarism they mobilize to stop it - Noam Chomsky
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history teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives - Abba Eban
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history teaches us the lesson of war but we tend to forget it all the same
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history will be kind to me for I intend to write it - Winston Churchill
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history: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools - Ambrose Bierce
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Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul - Marilyn Monroe
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hope has two beautiful offspring: disdain and courage. The former confronted by how things are going, the latter to change them
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hope is alright for breakfast, but it makes a very poor dinner - Francis Bacon
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hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss
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how do you recognise a work of art? How can it be kept apart, even if only for a moment, from its critics, commentators, its indefatigable plagiarists, its defacers and its final destiny in solitude? Simple-just translate it
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how do you tell if Lyndon Johnson is lying? If he wiggles his ears, that doesn't mean he's lying. If he raises his eyebrows, that doesn't mean he's lying. But when he moves his lips, he's lying - Robert F. Kennedy
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how easy it is to write difficultly
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how is it that the Mafia 'invests' by giving away drugs outside schools and publishers don't do the same with books?
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how is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read
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how many lives there are in one life, how many men there are in one man
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how many worries simply flow away when you decide to be somebody instead of just something
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how much truth can a spirit endure, how much can it dare? Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge results from courage, from hardness towards oneself, from cleanliness towards oneself
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human beings can be grouped into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are bored to death, and those who are worried to death - Winston Churchill
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human beings have only two operating modes: irresponsibility and panic - James R. Schlesinger
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human history, what with salvation and perdition, is ambiguous. We don't even know whether we are masters of our destiny
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human nature: what makes you swear at a pedestrian when you are driving and at the driver when you are a pedestrian - Oren Arnold
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human rights are not respected in Cuba, except in Guantánamo
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humanity doesn't go along with the idea that the world came into being by chance, by mistake, only because four imprudent atoms collided on the wet motorway. So a cosmic plot, God, the angels or devils has to be found
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humanity is as it is, it's not a question of changing it but getting to know it
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humankind cannot stand very much reality
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husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives - Marilyn Monroe
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hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue
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