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Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
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Gloria Steinem
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
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Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Aleister Crowley
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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M. C. Escher
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Lewis Mumford
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
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Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
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Pauline Kael
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
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Claude Debussy
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
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H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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Art Linkletter
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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