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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.: Anwar el-Sadat (1918 - 1981)
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), "Trump: Art of the Deal"
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Our lives teach us who we are.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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