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Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I wish outer-space guys would conquer Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little basket-beds with my name on it.
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Paul Goodman
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
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H. L. Mencken
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Henry David Thoreau
I stand in awe of my body.
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William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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George Orwell, 1946
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .
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H. L. Mencken
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Plato
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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