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Godfather, The
Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.
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Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
Give me liberty, or give me death.
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John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Brian K. Blackden, 1996
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.
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Paul Sweeney
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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Robertson Davies
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Heraclitus
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
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Thomas Szasz
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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