So long as no one knows everything about you, you have resources you can call upon for which no one is really prepared.
—Roger Zelazny
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
—Hunter S. Thompson
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense.
—James Thurber
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
—E. B. White
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
—Boris Pasternak
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
—Kenneth Grahame
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Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
—Franz Werfel
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren’t perfect.
—Fred Rogers
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You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
—J. R. R. Tolkien
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La ventre affamé n’point d’oreilles. Hungry bellies have no ears.
—François Rabelais
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You can’t get un-famous. You can get infamous, but you can’t get un-famous.
—Dave Chappelle
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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
—Augustine of Hippo
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Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
—Hunter S. Thompson
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My daddy always said that a man who walks around with a smile on his face all the time can’t possibly know what’s going on.
—Fred Thompson
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
—James Baldwin
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Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one’s people you serve, or your country.
—Nguyen Khanh
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Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.
—Calvin
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
—James A. Michener
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You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
—Saki
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I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don’t trust coincidences.
—Elim Garak
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Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The sky may fall on your head tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes.
—Chief Vitalstatistix
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If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.
—Yogi Berra
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It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
—Spock