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Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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Eric Sevareid
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
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Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Bill Cosby
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
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Leo Rosten
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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Henry Bolingbroke
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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Sallust
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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M.C. Escher
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
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Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Barnaby C. Keeney
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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Yakov Smirnoff
I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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