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A.A. Milne
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
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Henry Brougham
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
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Carolyn Kenmore
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
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Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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Luigi Barzini
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
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Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
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Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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H.L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.
Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.
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