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George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Hesiod
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 11.
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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John Ballantine Gough
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity
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Aldo Leopold
We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.
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Alfred North Whitehead
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Mark Ardis
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
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Samuel Butler
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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