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“i know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance”
“we have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less”“i have nothing to ask but that you move to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me...
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“erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit”
“if we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarim; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition” - charles caleb colton“people who use their erudition to write for a...
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“the way i see it, he said, you just can’t win it”
“everybodys in it for their own gain, you can’t please ‘em all”“there’s always somebody calling you down; i do my best ““and i do a good business”“there’s a lot of people asking for my time, they’re...
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“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”
“whoever loves becomes humble. those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism““the great question that has never been answered, and which i have not yet been able to answer,...
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“all i can do is to be me, whoever that is”
“i don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. they are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change”“people seldom do what they believe...
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“life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”
“when i hear someone sigh ‘life is hard’, i am tempted to ask, ‘compared to what?’” – sydney j. harris“contemplation often makes life miserable. we should act more, think less, and stop watching...
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“in order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice”
“‘sex’ is as important as eating and drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other”“to judge from the notions expounded by...
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“if we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane”
“ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid” – heinrich henne“the object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks...
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“there’s nothing i’m afraid of like scared people”
“there never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate”“it’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets...
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“race? what race, looks like an excuse for a party to me”
“men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up”- henry david thoreau “we are driven by five genetic needs: survival,...
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