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Unknown
A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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Wally \'Famous\' Amos
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
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Vaclav Havel
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
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Author Unknown
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
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Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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Aldous Huxley
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Real Live Preacher
Im telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe Im discovering that things were never in my hands.
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Fred Allen
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
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