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Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.
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Josh Billings
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Mickey Lolich
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'
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Euripides
Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world
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Woody Allen
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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Alice James
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.
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Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Ovid
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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Learned Hand
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
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