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Quotations from Famous People - 29
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Whitney Balliett
A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
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Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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M Scott Peck
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Churton Collins
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
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Frantz Fanos
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
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George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
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Seneca
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Gaius Petronius
What power has law where only money rules.
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Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709)
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.
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Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
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