Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor - Alexander Pope
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satire that a censor can understand deserves to be suppressed
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saying friendship is as if to say perfect understanding, immediate trust and lengthy reminiscing, that is to say trustworthiness
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scandal starts when the police put a stop to it
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school is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need society as it is - Ivan Illich
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schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school - Winston Churchill
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science ain't perfect, but that doesn't mean you need religion - Anonymous
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science doesn't interest me. It doesn't take into account dreams, chance, laughter, emotion and contradiction, things that are precious to me
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science is a cemetery of dead ideas
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science is anything that is always open to discussion
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science only serves to verify the discoveries of instinct
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see all, conceal much, modify little
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seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal
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selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live - Oscar Wilde
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serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting - George Orwell
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setting up libraries is like building public granaries, storing up reserves for a hibernation of the mind which, despite myself, I see many signs of its approach
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Seven Social Sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice - Mahatma Gandhi
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sex alleviates tension. Love causes it - Woody Allen
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she fell in love the same way all intelligent women fall in love: like a fool
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silence is unbearable for some because they have too much noise inside them - Robert Fripp
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silence, bloody hell! - all those who want to revive themselves raise your hand and all those who want to rejuvenate themselves take a step forward
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simplicity is the form of real greatness
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since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word
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since it's publicly known that cigarettes are dangerous, why are they sold?
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since their birth the great banks, decorated with national titles, were only associations of private speculators, who placed themselves by the side of governments...
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since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed (Constitution of UNESCO)
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slow and steady wins the race
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smile, your teeth are not only made for eating or biting - Man Ray
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so beautiful was she that they had forbidden her to approach the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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so long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable - Aldous Huxley
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so much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work - Peter Drucker
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soccer is beginning to be a lie as is well documented by the media
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soccer needs to free itself from chemists and accountants
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socialism can only arrive by bicycle
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society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks
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society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years - R.D. Laing
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society is permissive with things that cost absolutely nothing
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solidarity is not a question of giving, rather is it opposing injustice
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solidarity is the tenderness of the people
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solitude confers a twofold advantage on the man of intellectual eminence; first that of being by himself and secondly that of not being with others
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solitude is a beautiful thing; but it really needs someone to tell you that solitude is a beautiful thing
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solitude is to the soul as food is to the body
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solitude isn’t found, it’s made
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solving our problems involves radically changing the relationship we have with ourselves and with all of our past
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some believe that genius is hereditary; others don't have children
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some intellectuals work at filling our brains, whereas others do their best to empty them. Naturally the latter are in the majority
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some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted (Wilson Mizner)
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some people would pay to sell themselves
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some poor countries are proud and would rather solve their problems by themselves but, fortunately, the multinationals can't resist sacrificing themselves to help
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some regard themselves as perfect only because they are less demanding of themselves
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some smiles are not happy smiles, rather are they a way of crying with kindness
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some things are easier to legalize than legitimize
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someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie
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sometimes in life you have to know how to fight, not only fearlessly but also without much hope
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sometimes it can be better to continue on one's way without arriving. After all arriving is a nonentity, only a point in time
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sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light - Albert Schweitzer
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sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it - John von Neumann
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sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single instant - Oscar Wilde
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sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known - Alan Alexander Milne
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sometimes, in order to be listened to, one must remain silent
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sooner rather than later the grand avenues will open and free people will pass to build a better society
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souls have some mysterious device for finding each other out while our exterior selves are still entangled in the formalities of conventional discourse
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Spanish will not be a real language of culture until science is written in Spanish
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speaking different languages, we understand each other better
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speaking is translating, listening is translating, reading is translating, writing is translating, thinking is translating. Everyone translates, except some translators
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specialisation in the extreme translates as the highest degree of lack of culture
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specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes - Walter Gropius
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spontaneity is the fruit of long meditation
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stories are our dreams. And our dreams are our life (Tim Burton)
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strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will - Mahatma Gandhi
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strife among the poor means good business for the rich
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success is easy to obtain, what is difficult is to deserve it
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success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get - H. Jackson Brown
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superfluous goods make life superfluous
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sustainable development is like the road to hell, paved with good intentions
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