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"Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

Bertrand Russell

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“Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life”

Sir Francis Bacon

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha

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"Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never"

Ben Franklin

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"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."


Groucho Marx

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Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

Richard V. Allen

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"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Ann Landers

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"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."

George Santayana

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

Henri Rousseau

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''It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.''

Jerome K. Jerome

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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

Lenin

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"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

Ayn Rand

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''It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.''

Jerome K. Jerome

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"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease."

Bruce Lee

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''The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.''

Voltaire

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"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."

Og Mandino

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''Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.''

Maurice Maeterlinck

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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days."

Ecclesiastes

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I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

Melissa Auf der Maur

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"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."

Rodney So'oialo

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"I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out, But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing."

-John Byrom

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“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

William Shakespeare

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'Twould ring the bells of HeavenThe wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs,
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind, pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.

Ralph Hodgson

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"Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion."

Publilius Syrus

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If one must serve, I hold it better to serve a well-bred lion, who is naturally stronger than I am, than two hundred rats of my own breed.

Voltaire

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man."

William Shakespeare

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"A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world."

-Joseph Addison

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"In a mad world only the mad are sane."

Akira Kurosawa

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"The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

- Salvador Dali

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“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser”

Karl Marx

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

William Blake

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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I wanted them to look past my age and just listen to the music.

Jonny Lang

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If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Shakespeare (Twelth Night)

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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

Aristotle

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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless ...

Sinclair Lewis

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Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn.

Neil Abercrombie