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Irma Kurtz
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
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Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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Harry S Truman
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
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Sextus Propertius 54 BC-AD 2, Elegies, II, xix, 32
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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Alfred Adler
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.
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John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Samuel Johnson
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Liz Smith
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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Charles De Secondat
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
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