Mickey Spillane

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

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Martin Niemller

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

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Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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J. G. Holland

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

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Aristotle, Rhetoric

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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Carolyn Coats

Children have more need of models than of critics.

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Mark Twain

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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William Shakespeare

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

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Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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Philip K. Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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Lily Tomlin

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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