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H. G. Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Hubert Humphrey
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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e.e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Desiderius Erasmus
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Matrix, The
Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
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Burnadette Devlin
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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E. B. White
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now.
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George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
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