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Coming to America
Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.
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Richard F. Lovelace
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Samuel Butler
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
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Child Age 15
I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Walter Pater, 1873
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
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Andr Maurois
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.
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Karl Popper
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
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