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George Orwell
...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
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Henry L. Stimson
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
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William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
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Gail Godwin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Publilius Syrus
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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Aldous Huxley
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
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Hesketh Pearson
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Pierre Beaumarchais
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
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Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Hubert Humphrey
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
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Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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