taciturn men please women, who believe that they listen
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take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented - Elie Wiesel
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tears represent the melting of an icy heart
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television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it - Alfred Hitchcock
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television is a mirror in which the negation of the whole of our cultural system is reflected
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television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house - David Frost
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television is as strong as a lion, television fears nobody and television puts you to sleep like an idiot
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television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms - Alan Coren
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television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want (Clive Barnes)
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television is the only sleeping pill taken through the eyes
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tell the truth sometimes and then so that they believe you when you lie
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temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you a second chance - Orlando Aloysius Battista
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thank God, I am a communist
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that man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest - Henry David Thoreau
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that men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history - Aldous Huxley
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that most exciting perversion of life: the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should truly be allowed for its doing - Ernest Hemingway
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that new inspiration - without which to translate merely means to paraphrase into another language
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that some bankers have ended up in prison is not a matter of scandal, but what is outrageous is the fact that all the others are free
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that the vulgar express their thoughts clearly, is far from true; and what perspicuity can be found among them proceeds not from the easiness of their language, but the shallowness of their thoughts - Samuel Johnson
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that which is difficult to obtain is highly valued
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that which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee
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that which makes men sociable is their inability to bear solitude
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that which makes the vanity of others insupportable to us, is that it wounds our own
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the abuse of information proliferates ignorance via the illusion of annihilating it. Furthermore, even the easy access to sex has degraded sex itself
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the advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery - Samuel Johnson
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the animal of friendship is a companion, not one of a herd
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the art of living well and the art of dying well are one
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the art of winning is learned from defeats
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the baddies exist because there are goodies - eliminate the goodies and the baddies will gradually disappear too
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the banking system creates money from nothing just like counterfeiters, the only difference is who profits
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the basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I
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the basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words - Philip K. Dick
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the beauty of war is that each leader of a band of assassins has his flag blessed and invokes God before setting off to exterminate his neighbors
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the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
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the best gift of Nature to man is the briefness of his life
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the best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary - Franklin P. Adams
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the best thing about forgetfulness is remembering
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the best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time - Abraham Lincoln
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the best way of duping yourself is to believe that you are more cunning than others
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the best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others
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the best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility - Kenneth Blanchard
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the best way to learn how to make a film is to make one - Stanley Kubrick
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the Bible teaches us to love our enemies as much as our friends. Probably, because they are the same persons
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the big difference between sex for money and sex for free is sex for money costs less - Brendan Francis
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the biggest obstacle for the comprehension of a piece of art is the attempt to understand it
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the book in which the whole of book learning was written called for help so as not to be gnawed by the mouse. And the mouse had a good laugh
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the bourgeoisie can be termed as any group of people who are discontented with what they have, but satisfied with what they are
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the British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal (Bill Marsano)
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the broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one
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the camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth - Harold Evans
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the chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three
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the cheerful loser is the winner - Elbert G. Hubbard
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the chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
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the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness - Arthur Conan Doyle
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the chief source of problems is solutions (Eric Sevareid)
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the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world - Bertrand Russell
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the Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad
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the Church is becoming, for many, the principal obstacle to faith. They can no longer see in her anything other than Man's lust for power played out in a little theatre of men who, under the pretext of administering official Christianity, seem mostly to hinder the true spirit of Christianity
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the Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church
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the cinema, like paintings, shows the invisible
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the circumstances make the man no less than the man makes the circumstances
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the cock even crows in the morning on which it ends up in the pot
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the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions - Daniel Webster
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the course of our lives represents the true mirror of our reasoning
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the credulity of love is the most fundamental source of authority
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the cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
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the cult of perfection always leads to preferring myth to authenticity
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the day will come when images will replace man who will no longer need to exist, but only to look on. We shall no longer be living beings but merely onlookers
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the death of someone who's dreaming of us is the death of a part of us
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the deepest thing in man is his skin
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the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
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the Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it - P.J. O'Rourke
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the denial of cultural rights to minorities is as disruptive of the moral fabric of mainstream society as is the denial of civil rights (Joshua A. Fishman)
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the destiny of a people depends on the state of its grammar. There is no great country without propriety of language
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the devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things
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the devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner
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the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting - Charles Bukowski
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the distance between one molecule and another is the distance between the stars
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the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion - Albert Einstein
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the distrust of words is much less damaging than an excessive confidence in them (Vaclav Havel)
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the divine light blinds the world instead of illuminating it
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the dominant ideology has always been the ideology of the dominant class
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the dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage so we get married - Cyril Connolly
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the dream of everyone without a brother is that all men be brothers
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the duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman
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the Earth belongs to its owners, but the landscape belongs to those who know how to appreciate it - Upton Sinclair
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the earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of these diseases is called 'man'
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the easiest person to deceive is one's self - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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the end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end
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the end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it - William Faulkner
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the end sprouts from the means, as the tree germinates from the seed - Mahatma Gandhi
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the enemy is marching ahead of us
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the English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it - James Agate
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the era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill
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the erotic-publicity minded society in which we live endeavours to organise and develop desire to unprecedented levels, while maintaining satisfaction within the sphere of private life. So that society may function and competition persist, desire must increase, spread out and devour the lives of men
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the essence of mathematics resides in its freedom
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the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones - William Shakespeare
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the evil we do does not attract as much hate and hostility as do our good deeds
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the evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal - Charles Darwin
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the fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one - George Bernard Shaw
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the fact that there are different tongues is one of the greatest mysteries of humanity
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the failings of others are too much like our own
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the final illusion is the belief that one has lost all illusions
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the first and most important step towards knowledge is mutual love between learner and teacher
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the first casualty when war comes is truth (Hiram Warren Johnson)
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the first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children - Clarence Darrow
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the First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it - Alexander Cockburn
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the first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill - Robert Heller
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the first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve - Dean Acheson
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the first revolutionary move is to call things by their real names
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the first symptom of death is birth
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the first thing a woman should do when she wants a man is to start to run
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the force of habit is great
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the force of habit is such that even living becomes a habit
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the foreigner is within us. And when we flee from or struggle against the foreigner, we are fighting our own unconscious
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the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all
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the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them - Charles Bukowski
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The freedom to exercise freely one's talent, that's what happiness is about
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the freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom to think. That which today is called adultery was once called heresy
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the function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons - David Butler
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the function of punishment is to improve the punisher
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the future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious - Ted Levitt
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the future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves
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the future of children is always of today. Tomorrow will be too late
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the future will win, there will be no property in cyberspace. Behold DotCommunism (John Perry Barlow)
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the general public has a duty to resist relentlessly, as if it was in an irremissible line of troops on the Piave, against the damage from a perilous disintegration of the general willpower, the collapse of civic awareness with the loss of a sense of what is right - the last and final bastion of what is or is not moral
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the goal is to depart
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the good thing about democracy is just this: everyone can say their piece but there's no need to listen to them
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the gratification comes in the doing, not in the results - James Dean
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the great events of the world take place in the brain - Oscar Wilde
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the great merit of society is that it makes us appreciate solitude
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the great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes - Stanley Kubrick
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the great torment in our lives stems from the fact that we are eternally alone, and all our efforts and actions are aimed only at fleeing from this solitude
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the greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule
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the greatest of all the things that wisdom provides to make life sublimely happy is undoubtedly the possession of friendship
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the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is the government of the United States of America (Martin Luther King)
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the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government - Martin Luther King
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the greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues
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the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated - Mahatma Gandhi
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the greedy dig their pit with their teeth
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the growth of third world countries depends on demilitarization
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the hardest of our battles is combatting ourselves, however the most satisfactory victory comes from conquering ourselves
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the hare likes polenta. The cook said it
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the hen is an egg's way of producing another egg - Samuel Butler
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the hope of becoming rich is one of the most widespread causes of poverty
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the hours are long and life is short
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the human being is the Earth that walks
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the human imagination is immensely poorer than reality
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the human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter - Mark Twain
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the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn - Alvin Toffler
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the imagination is as good as many voyages and how much cheaper (George William Curtis)
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the important thing is not to have a lot of ideas, but to live one of them
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the indifference, cowardice and opportunism of their citizens kill off democracies even more than tyrants and dictators
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the Internet is also an authentic murderer of language variety
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the journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse if he has time
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the key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him. It isn't to anyone's advantage to see the truth - Bob Ezrin
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the killer instinct is, like many other instincts, innate in a human being. Man and death, man and cruelty, man and blood - they all go together. Not a pleasant state of affairs, but that is certainly how things are
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the kiss is an ingenious expedient that prevents lovers from talking too much nonsense
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the last day of the year is not the last day of time
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the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges
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the less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep
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the less we have, the more we give. It seems absurd, but this is the logic of love
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the less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save - the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour - your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being
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the liberation of the slaves in the South is part of the fight for the liberation of the workers in the North - Abraham Lincoln
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the liberty of democracy is not safe if people tolerate growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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the limits of my language are the limits of my world
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the little I know, I owe to my ignorance
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the mad open up roads that later are taken by the sane
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the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason - G.K. Chesterton
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the Mafia had a beginning and it will also have an end
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the mafia is like any other business except that once in a while it uses firearms
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the mafia is not an exclusively Italian problem nor a matter of backward peasants and underdeveloped situations in Italy's south, but a European problem too
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the major sin is the sin of being born (Samuel Beckett)
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the majority of subjects believes that they are subjects because the king is the king; however it is not realised that it is actually the king who is king because they are subjects
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the man of the third millennium will have Bush's culture, Berlusconi's honesty and Putin's kind heart
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the man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them (Mark Twain)
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the man who endeavors to purchase affection by benevolent actions becomes disillusioned by experience of human ingratitude - Bertrand Russell
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the man who has no imagination has no wings (Muhammad Ali)
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the man who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his mother tongue
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the man who loses his honour for doing business loses both business and honour
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the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers - Thomas Jefferson
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the man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life - Muhammad Ali
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the man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds - Mark Twain
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the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one - J.D. Salinger
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the market is a place where men may deceive one another
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the media are toys in the hands of the rich, and the rich use them to become even richer
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the medical establishment has become a major threat to health - Ivan Illich
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the mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires - William Arthur Ward
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the memories that we have of one another, even when we are in love, are not the same
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the memory left by a book is more important than the book itself
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the memory of a human being is a marvellous thing although it is prone to error
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the memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still - Lord Byron
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the moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick
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the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws
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the more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity - Joseph Conrad
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the more laws there are, the more thieves there are
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the more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is - George Bernard Shaw
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the more we go up in the world, the more insignificant we appear to those who are unable to fly
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the more you have the more you want, the less you have the more you give - Anonymous
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the more you resemble the idea you have imagined of yourself the more authentic you are
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the most beautiful words are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign' - Woody Allen
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the most dangerous food is wedding cake - James Thurber
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the most democratic thing in the world is the dictionary: it is the only possession we have in common
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the most evident sign of having found the truth is the inner peace
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the most important book for a communist like me is the Bible
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the most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said - Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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the most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money - Joey Adams
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the most precious things in life are not those one gets for money (Albert Einstein)
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the most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality - Heywood Broun
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the most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion
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the most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements - Thomas Jefferson
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the nation that destroys its soil destroys itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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the new economy is perhaps the biggest mirage ever projected on the planet: a non-existent market for non-existent needs
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the New Economy is that wonderful concept whereby wealth can be created losing money
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the nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
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the offensive words we utter strongly evidence our ignorance
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the old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen - Robert Christgau
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the oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought
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the one and only truth lies in instinct
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the one who obeys is almost always better than the one who commands
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the only beautiful eyes are those that look at you with tenderness
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the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable - John Kenneth Galbraith
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the only joy in this world is beginning. Living is beautiful because every moment of living is always a beginning
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the only mission the working class has is to set a good example - Oscar Wilde
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the only ones who are always coming back from somewhere are those who've never gone anywhere
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the only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone
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the only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation - Lord Chesterfield
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the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself - Winston Churchill
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the only struggle you lose is the one you abandon
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the only tendency in modern cinema is to make a lot of money (Roman Polanski)
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the only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing
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the only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind - Albert Schweitzer
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the only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible - Richard M. DeVos
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the only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless
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the only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school - George Bernard Shaw
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the only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me - Mahatma Gandhi
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the only useful answers are those that pose new questions
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the only victories you achieve by fleeing are those over women
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the only way a reporter should look at a politician is down - Frank Kent
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the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not - Mark Twain
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the only way to preserve your culture is to put it in jeopardy
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the only way to prevent others from knowing your limits is to never go beyond them
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the only wise men are those who live each day of their lives as if they were to die the same day or hour
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the optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true - Robert Oppenheimer
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the order of the links was changed but the chain remained a chain
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the organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony - Paul Goodman
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the original is unfaithful to the translation
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the owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it - George Carlin
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the paths of loyalty are always straight
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the pen is the tongue of the mind
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the perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post (George Bernard Shaw)
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the person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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the photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a fraction of a second of reality
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the pleasure of living without trouble is well worth the trouble of living without pleasure
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the poet is like this monarch of the clouds riding the storm above the marksman's range; exiled on the ground, hooted and jeered, he cannot walk because of his great wings
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the poet is worth what his best poem is worth
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the point is not to humanize war but to abolish it
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the point isn't doing many things, but to do everything with so much enthusiasm
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the police force used to be run by men of integrity. That is a mistake which has been rectified (Joe Orton)
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the political Left hasn't the slightest idea about the world it lives in
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the political left is an evil that only the presence of the right makes tolerable
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the politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does
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the poor go to war to fight and die for the whims, wealth and excesses of others
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the possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it - Anthony Burgess
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the power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it - George Bernard Shaw
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the preface is the most important part of a book. Even the critics read it (Philip Guedalla)
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the press does not want to inform the reader but to persuade him he's being informed
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the price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side - James Baldwin
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the primary objective for an educator is to produce autodidacts
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the prince is the first servant of his State
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the principle of education is to preach by example
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the prohibition against incest actually don't apply to self love - Yossi Sarid
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the proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time - Jack London
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the public debt is big enough to take care of itself (Ronald Reagan)
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the public good consists of a great number of private evils
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the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing - Oscar Wilde
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the punishment for a crime is having committed it; the penalty added by the law is superfluous
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the pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement - George F. Will
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the quality of a book depends on the reader
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the question of morality has existed for some time, but by now it has become the most important and pressing issue as the renewal of faith in the institutions, the actual governability of the country and the solidity of democracy itself depend on its solution
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the ratio of literacy to illiteracy is unchanged, only nowadays the illiterates can read
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the real crisis lies in the fact that the old world is dying and the new one cannot yet be born
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the real discovery from a voyage consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes
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the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development - Albert Einstein
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the real University has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind - Robert Pirsig
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the reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more (Jonas Edward Salk)
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the root cause of diffusing mass ignorance is the fact that everyone knows how to read and write (Peter de Vries)
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the salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself - John Kenneth Galbraith
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the same words uttered by different mouths take on different, even antithetic, meanings
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the satisfied and happy don\'t love, they fall asleep in their habits
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the school as a means of education to me was simply a blank - Charles Darwin
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the secret of happiness is to yield to temptations - Oscar Wilde
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the secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made - Groucho Marx
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the secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made! - Arthur Bloch
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the sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love
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the spiritual miserliness of those who, knowing something, do not endeavour to transmit this knowledge, is detestable
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the starry sky above me and the moral law within me
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the statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you - Rita Mae Brown
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the stock market is the place where stupid people are separated from their money - Paul Samuelson
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the strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it
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the strings binding the respect of someone for someone else are generally born of necessity
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the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
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the stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything - Milan Kundera
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the supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself
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the Swiss are fanatics for cleaning, they even launder money
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the tactful aspect of audacity is knowing to what extent one can go too far
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the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct - William Somerset Maugham
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the theory of the Communists may be summed up in a single sentence: Abolition of private property
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the thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children (King Edward VIII)
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the things most people want to know about are usually none of their business - George Bernard Shaw
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the things we know best are the things we haven't been taught
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the thought dies in the mouth
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the three things I always forget are names, faces and the third one I can't remember
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the trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it - Franklin P. Jones
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the trouble with capitalism is that capitalists are almost always very good at what they do within their company, but outside they are often dull and boring imbeciles, and sometimes even worse
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the trouble with political jokes is that they get elected to office - Anonymous
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the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
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the trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time - Franklin P. Adams
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the true value of a human being is determined by his ability to attain liberation from himself - Albert Einstein
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the truth is as difficult to deny as it is to hide
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the truth is the most cunning of enemies. It launches its attacks upon the points of our heart at which we were not expecting them, and have prepared no defence
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the truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves, nor can it be found by using violence against outside enemies - Mahatma Gandhi
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the twentieth century can be forgiven for everything, even the two World Wars and those that followed, the fashion shows and the Formula One races, but certainly not for having sacrificed the cinema for television
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the two most beautiful words in the English language are: 'check enclosed' - Dorothy Parker
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the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of democracy
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the universal religion, for the majority of homo sapiens, is none other than football - George Steiner
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the Vatican is the most reactionary force in Italy. According to the church, governments that encroach on its privileges are despotic and those, like fascism, that add to them are heaven-sent
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the verb 'to read' does not tolerate the imperative. This is a characteristic it shares with other verbs like 'to love' and 'to dream'
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the very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us - Quentin Crisp
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the victor belongs to the spoils (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
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the victor will not be asked afterwards, whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters but victory
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the virtue of the parents is a large dowry
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the weaker the body the more it demands; the stronger it is the more it obeys
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the wealth of the poor is represented by their children, that of the rich by their parents
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the well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice - William Somerset Maugham
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the white race is the cancer of human history. It is the white race and it alone - its ideologies and inventions - which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself (Susan Sontag)
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the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - H.L. Mencken
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the whole history of modern industry shows that capital, if not checked, will unscrupulously and ruthlessly work to cast down the whole working class to the utmost state of degradation
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the whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum - Havelock Ellis
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the wind is never favorable to those who don't know where they are going
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the wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials
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the woman who has no luck with men doesn't know how lucky she is - Marilyn Monroe
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the woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived - Elizabeth Jenkins
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the words you use to describe your reality, create reality (Sir Martin Brofman)
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the worker becomes a cheaper kind of merchandise with the more goods he produces
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the worker becomes so much poorer with the more wealth he produces
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the world economy is the most efficient expression of organized crime. The international bodies that control currency, trade, and credit practice international terrorism against poor countries, and against the poor of all countries, with a cold-blooded professionalism that would make the best of the bomber terrorists blush
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the world has the structure of language and language is moulded by the mind
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the world is a better place without Saddam. And without Bush......?
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the world is a den of crazies
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the world is a prison in which it is better to occupy a solitary-confinement cell
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the world is destined to become even more comical; that is why humorists are the real precursors of our future civilisation
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the world is full of wonderful books, that no one reads
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the world is maternal for men and male chauvinist for women
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the world is not a show, but a battlefield
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the world is not true, but it's real
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the world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry
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the world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished - Jimmy Carter
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the world should laugh more. But after having eaten
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the world would be a far more peaceful place if we were all atheists
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the worldwide economy is today a gigantic casino
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the worldwide shortage of food that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day of modern warfare - Peter Ustinov
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the worst kind of intolerance comes from what is known as reason
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the worst that can happen to a genius is to be understood
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the writer who does not explore the depths will always stay afloat
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the young can but don't know how to, the more mature know how to but can't
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the young delude themselves about their future; the old folks about their past
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the young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened - H. H. Munro
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the young have no need of sermons, instead they need examples of honesty, faith in principles and unselfishness
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then progress came and destroyed everything, even more than any war, because if wars destroyed our property, progress destroyed our very way of life
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there are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true - Winston Churchill
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there are adolescences that are triggered off at ninety
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there are doors to the sea that are unlocked with words
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there are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them
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there are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When bought they stay bought - Bill Moyers
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there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up - Oscar Wilde
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there are many ways to arrive; the best is not to leave
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there are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer
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there are no facts, but only interpretations
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there are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - Leon R.Yankwich
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there are no rules. All men are exceptions to a non-existing rule
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there are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses - George Bernard Shaw
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there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators
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there are occasions, situations and contexts in which violence, and therefore murder (violence carried to the extreme), naturally becomes concrete, present and a reality
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there are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously - Thomas Sowell
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there are people so poor that they only have money - Anonymous
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there are people who know everything, but that's all they know
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there are so many laws that no-one can rule out being hanged
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there are things that by day or night, whether at sea or on land, you should never do: such as war
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there are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation who work long, hard hours at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like - Nigel Marsh
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there are two types of television: intelligent television which makes people difficult to govern, and the television of imbeciles which makes people easy to govern
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there are two ways to achieve happiness: one is to play the fool, the other is to be a fool
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there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword, the other is by debt - John Adams
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there are words that should only serve once
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there is a more terrible weapon than calumny: the truth
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there is always a right way; there is always a wrong way. The wrong way always seems more reasonable - George Moore
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there is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness
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there is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive - Jack London
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there is an even cleaner form of energy than the sun, more renewable than the wind: it's the energy we don't consume - Arthur H. Rosenfeld
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there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide
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there is mutual advantage in that, even while men teach, they learn
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there is no beginning and no end, only the infinite passion for life
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there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy - Robert Louis Stevenson
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there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies (Winston Churchill)
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there is no greatness where there is not simplicity
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there is no happiness without freedom and no freedom without courage
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there is no justice in the fact that drugs can be freely had only in prisons
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there is no love without suffering or causing suffering
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there is no moderation in religion, reason is always desecrated by religion
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there is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
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there is no passion in which the ego reigns so strongly as being in love; one is always more prepared to sacrifice the tranquility of the person being loved than to lose one's own
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there is no path to peace. Peace is the path - Mahatma Gandhi
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there is no sincerer love than the love of food - George Bernard Shaw
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there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first - Margaret Thatcher
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there is not the slightest doubt that sustainable development is one of the most destructive concepts - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
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there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so - William Shakespeare
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there is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about - Oscar Wilde
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there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered - Nelson Mandela
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there is nothing more damaging to a country than shrewd people passing themselves off as being intelligent - Francis Bacon
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there is nothing more useful and splendid than a dictionary as a plaything for children five years and older. Likewise, with a little luck, for good writers up to their hundredth year
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there is nothing potentially more dirty than a hidden war - Susan Sontag
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there is one rule for politicians all over the world: don't say in power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible - John Galsworthy
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there is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked - Groucho Marx
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there is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way - Christopher Morley
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there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about - Oscar Wilde
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there is only one thing in this world that never deceives: appearances
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there is only one thing that excites animals more than pleasure, and it is pain
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there is only one war open to mankind and that is the war against our extinction - Isaac Asimov
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there is only one way to reduce the consumption of drugs: legalize it - Gary Becker
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there is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more - Lord Byron
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there is something to be learned from a great man even when he is silent
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there is something tragic in the fact that as soon as man had invented a machine to do his work he began to starve - Oscar Wilde
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there must be something wrong with work, otherwise the rich would have kept it all for themselves
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there never was a good war or a bad peace - Benjamin Franklin
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there ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators - Will Rogers
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there where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too
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there will be vice as long as there are men
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there's just one decorous stinginess, and that's the stinginess of words
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there's no curse greater than an idea propagated by violence - Ezra Pound
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there's no difference between reading and curiosity
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there's no harm in thinking
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there's nothing as hard as spotting an idiot, if he remains silent
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there's only one good, Knowledge, and only one evil, Ignorance
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they asked me: are you in favour of deregulating drugs? I replied: let's first start with the deregulation of bread. It's subject to tremendous prohibitionism in half the world
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they can cut all the flowers, but they'll never stop the Spring
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they have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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they have developed treatments for unknown illnesses - Ronald Reagan
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they want a war, but we shall not leave them in peace
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they were saying to me that a few deaths were necessary to bring in a world in which no one would be killed any more
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they who live only for beauty always live for the moment
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they who seek to combat usage with grammar deceive themselves
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thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it - G.K. Chesterton
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things that are impossible are easier than difficult ones
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thinking is always a terrible exercise
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thinking is the hardest work there is (Henry Ford)
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this life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds
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this suspense is terrible. I hope it will last - Oscar Wilde
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those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others - Groucho Marx
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those ideas that seem an empty fantasy to contemporaries and obvious to posterity also include the introduction of a common language between different peoples
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those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night - Edgar Allan Poe
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those who win, in whatever mode they win, never receive shame from it
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those who write as they speak, and speak well, write badly
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thought is the fruit of language
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thoughts are like a grain of sand in the power machine
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thoughts draw back, objects move forward - Nina Ivanoff
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thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody
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thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species - Joseph Addison
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time and the hour runs through the roughest day - William Shakespeare
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time is of the essence as it is just another name for life itself
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time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending - Charles Chaplin
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time is the only thing you cannot put back
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to arrange a library is a silent way of carrying on the art of critique
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to be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it (G. K. Chesterton)
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to be ourselves we need to be someone
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to be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretences but your own - Lionel Strachey
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to be perfect she lacked just one defect
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to be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance - Jeremy Taylor
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to be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand
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to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness - Bertrand Russell
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to believe in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made
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to believe is to create
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to call itself civilized, society should accept reason and folly in equal measure
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to desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship
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to die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable (Erich Fromm)
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to divorce because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married because you love him (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
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to find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two - Norman Douglas
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to find a new country, and invade it has always been the same - Samuel Johnson
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to find happiness, one should not seek it
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to have doubts about oneself is the first sign of intelligence
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to have everything needed to be happy, is not a reason for being happy (Jacques Normand)
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to improve one's style means to improve one's way of thinking
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to lead does not mean to dominate, but to fulfil a duty
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to love one's work is the nearest real approximation to happiness on earth
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to love our enemies (as the Gospel asks) is not a job for men, but for angels
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to make a gift of culture is to make a gift of thirst. The rest is a consequence
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to marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
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to most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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to read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator. In learning to read well, scholarship is less important than instinct - W.H. Auden
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to repent and then start again from the beginning - that's what life is
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to suffer without complaining is the only lesson we must learn in this life
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to tell the truth in bad faith should be considered dishonest
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to vote is to abdicate
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to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill
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to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric
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to you, my holy language / to you, the one I adore / more than all the silver / and more than all the gold
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today, more than ever, cultured men have the duty to raise doubts rather than collect certitudes
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today's Don Quixotes don't fight against but for windmills
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today's political parties are above all power generators of money and clientelism
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today’s music is directed by bankers and accountants: a trend we must absolutely fight - Brian May
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together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school - Ivan Illich
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too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair - George Burns
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too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude
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too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality - Thomas Sowell
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tourism is travelling very far in search of the desire to return home
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translating is the most profound form of reading
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translating literature is like having sex: better to talk less about it and do it better
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translation is an experience offering and calling for the slowest reading there is, almost a pedestrian crossing over the physical space of the text, with its valleys, plains and mountains
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translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive - Roy Campbell
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translators are like portrait painters - they can prettify the copy but it must always resemble the original
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translators are the draught horses of culture
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travel serves only to endear us more to the place where we were born
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treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being
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true achievement is to become the best that you can become - Harold Taylor
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true ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it
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true moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats
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true philosophy is learning to see the world again
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true power is in the hands of whoever controls the mass media
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truth does not reside in one dream alone but in many dreams
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truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it - Mark Twain
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truth never damages a cause that is just - Mahatma Gandhi
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truths that matter - important principles - are, in the final analysis, still only two or three. They are those that your mother taught you as a child
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try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
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two things strike me: the intelligence of the beast and the bestiality of man
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