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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

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"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

Ian Fleming

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"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Mahatma Gandhi

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

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"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."

W. C. Fields

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The Air was perfectly delicious, sweet enough for the breath of angels. Every draught of it gave a separate and distinct piece of pleasure. I do not believe that Adam and Eve tasted better in their balmiest nook.

John Muir

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

Mark Twain

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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin (1937 - )