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Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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Johann von Neumann
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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William M. Holden
Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
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Earl Warren
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. (On assassination of President John F Kennedy(
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Mary Stewart
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
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Naguib, Mahfouz
Happy is he who can give himself up.
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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Laertius Diogenes
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
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T. Starr King
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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Charles Sumner
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
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