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"Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch."

Larry Flynt

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'At one point, they wanted me at the end wounded, and in a wheelchair and crutch like Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall. I said I'm not doing that movie.'

Robert Duvall

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"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache".


Bette Davis

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"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."

Samuel Butler

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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.


Ludwig van Beethoven

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"No gold-digging for me...I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday."

Mae West

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"Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end."

Joan D. Vinge

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'What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.'

Richard Bach

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"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man"?



Zhuangzi

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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Mark Twain

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“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”


Albert Einstein

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"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies."

Walter Ralegh

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"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."

Bernard Baruch

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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb".


Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.


Honore de Balzac

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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.



Susan Sontag

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'All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things - that it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave.'

Bertrand Russell

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"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

Martin Luther King

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"I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street."

Malcom X

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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.


Dave Barry

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'What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.'

Ronald Reagan

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"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Jennings Bryan

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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.


Sarah Bernhardt

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'Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.'

George Santayana

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

Albert Camus

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'Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.'

Kahlil Gibran

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"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her."

Abraham Lincoln

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"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character."

George Santayana

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"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

Ronald Reagan

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"For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field."

Neal Stephenson

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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

Alice Walker

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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

A. A. Milne

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"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism".

Albert Einstein

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"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is glory."

Salvador Dali

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"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.



St. Francis of Assisi

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"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."

Sandra Day O'Connor

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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”


Anthony Robbins

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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas Alva Edison

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"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting."

Russell H. Ewing