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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.: Halifax
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.: Sol Hurok
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.: Lenin (1870 - 1924)
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.: William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
Virtue is its own punishment.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.: Glaser and Way
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There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.: Robert Orben
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.: Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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