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Machiavelli, The Prince
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
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Barbara Hall
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
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Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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Andre Agassi
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
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Admiral Hyman Rickover
Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
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George Santayana
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Justice is incidental to law and order.
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