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Clarence Darrow
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
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James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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George Santiano
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
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Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Mae West
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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Danish proverb
To own is to fear.
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Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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William Gibson
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.
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Sonya Friedman
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
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