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Andrew Schneider
The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
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Sir Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
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Leo Rosten
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
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Nigel Kneale
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
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Lester R Bittel
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
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Seneca
All art is an imitation of nature.
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Joseph Addison
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country
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Alfred Hitchcock
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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Richard Hofstadter
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
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Hellen Keller
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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