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Shelley
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.
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Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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G.K. Chesterton
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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James Dean
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Ayn Rand
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
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Koran
Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.
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Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Geschichte ist ... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re-transl.: History is ... a dialogue between the present and the past.
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John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
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Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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