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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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William Lloyd
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
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Harry Firestone
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
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Marla Jones
Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Henry M. Wriston
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
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Jefferson Davis
The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.
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Sir Walter Besant
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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Henny Youngman
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
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Julius Caesar
Men willingly believe what they wish.
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Will Rogers
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
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