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Quotations from Famous People - 139
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Aristotle
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain
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Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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Mignon McLaughlin
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
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John M. Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Deus ex machina A god from the machine
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Dan Kelly
The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.
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Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Nancy Astor
My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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William Shakespeare
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
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Moses Hadas
I have read your book and much like it.
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J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
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