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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
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Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
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Leonardo DaVinci
Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Truman Capote
In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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Mark Twain
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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A. S. Neill, Summerhill
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
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Allan Goldfein
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
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George Orwell
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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Herbert Samuel
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
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William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
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