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Charles de Montesquieu
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
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Chris Evert
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
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Albert Einstein
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
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George Carlin
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?
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Walter Savage Landor
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Baltasar Gracian
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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Epictetus
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Shirley MacLaine
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
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James Joyce
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Robert Collier
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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Lewis Thomas
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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