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Kane O\'Hara
When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.
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Marvin E. Wolfgang
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.
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John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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Virgil
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
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John Locke
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Honore de Balzac
This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.
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Robert Brault
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
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Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Robert Southey
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
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George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel
Chew before you swallow.
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Benjamin Franklin
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
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