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Blaise Pascal
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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Koran
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
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Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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Sophocles, Ajax
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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Henry Anatole Grunwald
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.
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Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
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George Gordon
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep.
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Thomas Morell
See the conquering hero comes Sound the trumpets, beat the drums
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Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary
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Unknown
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.
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