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Quotations from Famous People - 184
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H. L. Mencken
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Irving Cohen
Truth is shorter than fiction.
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Lloyd Garrison
On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
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Richard Dawkins
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
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Despair.com
The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.
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Johann von Goethe
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Titus Livius
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Willie Tyler
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
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Doug Larson
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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Stephen Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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