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G. C. Lichtenberg
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
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Dan Parker
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'
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Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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Barnard Elliot Bee
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
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Spider-Man
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.
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Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
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Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Katherine Anne Porter
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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Jessamyn West
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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Dominique de Menil
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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