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Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
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Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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Francis Quarles
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
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Doug Ferrari
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
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Hannah Moore
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.
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Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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Edmund Spenser
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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George Bernard Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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Sidney Madwed
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
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Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nothing endures but change.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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