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The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)
What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.
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Voltaire
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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Ocean\'s Eleven
Danny Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.
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Rita Rudner
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
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Maurice Masterlinck
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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Jimmy Carter
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
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Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Mother Theresa
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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