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Italian Proverb


Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

William Blake


The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Mark Twain


I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables


Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Elbert Hubbard


Live truth instead of professing it.

P. J. O'Rourke


Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Herman Melville


We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Beverly Nichols


Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marshall McLuhan


I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Miss Piggy


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

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Clive Staples Lewis


Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Henry Ford


Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Spencer


Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

Roland Barthes, Esprit


What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

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Thomas John Watson, Sr.


Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

George Gordon Byron


Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

George Moore


A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

David Hume


If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

George Orwell


Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness.

Leo Rosten


Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides


You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

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W. C. Fields


A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Shirley MacLaine


Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

Anonymous, French slogan


I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Larry Hawkins


We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it.

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Charles Dickens


A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

Eric Hoffer


To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

George Santayana


Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Aristotle


Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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