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Author Unknown
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Cullen Hightower
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
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E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
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William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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George Eliot
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
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Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Arab Proverb
Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
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Stanley Kubrick, in Guardian, June 5, 1963
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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Stanley Lindquist
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
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