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Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast-table
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
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Andre Malraux
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Mae West
I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
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William Shakespeare
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
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Alan B. Watts
According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is
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Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Paul Rudnick
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
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Jacob Chanowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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