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Gloria Swanson
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
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W. H. Auden
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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John J. Sirica
An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
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Eric Hoffer
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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Rene Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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Horace
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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Steven Weinberg
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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John Cage
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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Thomas a Kempis
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will
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George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
To err is human, to forgive divine.
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