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English Proverb
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
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Aleister Crowley
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
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Sidney Madwed
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
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Jeff Melvoin
You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
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Joan Didion
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
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Aldous Huxley
When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
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Karl Kraus
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
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Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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