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Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Seneca, Epistles
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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Thomas Paine
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
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1 Corinthians 13:13, 1 Corinthians 13:13
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.
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Golda Meir
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Martin Luther
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
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Louis Pasteur
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Henry Fielding
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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William James
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Aristotle Onassis
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
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Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
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