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Akhenaton
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Cicero
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.
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U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.
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Margaret Cho
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Caesar Augustus
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are.
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William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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