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Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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Dan Quayle
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
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Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Gustave Flaubert
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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Lauren Edwards
I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.
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Neil A. Maxwell
Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.
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Miguel de Cervantes
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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Scott Adams
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
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Burk Hudson
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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