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"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

Rene Descartes

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'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'

Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963

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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."


Robert Byrne

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"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"

William Shakespeare

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."


Abraham Lincoln

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it."

George Bernard Shaw

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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976

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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."


Homer

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"Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."

Douglas Adams

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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."


Cato the Elder