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Francis Bacon
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
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Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Don Herold
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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Max Lerner
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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Lord Byron
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.
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H.L. Mencken
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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Edward Keating
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
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Rilke
Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
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