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Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb


Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Phaedrus


The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Helen Rowland


The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Eleanor Roosevelt


A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Japanese Proverb


Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

George Carlin


Weather forecast for tonight dark.

Frank Herbert, Dune


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Robert Solow


It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

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