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Pliny the Elder, Natural History
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Paul Fussell
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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Louis D. Brandeis
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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Alan Watts
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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John Lennon
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
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Kahlil Gibran
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
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Charles M. Schulz
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
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Jack Kerouac
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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