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Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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George Walden
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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John Burroughs
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Robert Orben
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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Marilyn C. Barrick
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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Federico Fellni
I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.
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Samuel C. Florman
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
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Nancy Reagan
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)
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