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Robert J. Ringer
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
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Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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Warren Bennis
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Abraham Lincoln
Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
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M. Grundler
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
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R. D. Laing
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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William Golding
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Nozick
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
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