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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde
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Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
—David Hume
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
—Will Rogers
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Everyone knows that child pornography is bad because it’s been demonstrated over and over that people who look at that stuff end up acting it out—and really destroy people’s lives. That’s beyond the unconscionably cruel exploitation of the children involved.
Other forms of pornography are harmful for a similarly oft-repeated reason: Pornography makes women into objects of desire rather than real people. We want to have relationships between person and person, not person-to-object.
—Tzvi Freeman
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
—Joshua Reynolds
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
—John Keats
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I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
—Alexander Hamilton
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
—Niels Bohr
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Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.
—Adam Smith
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
—Paracelsus
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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
—Zane Grey
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
—Elie Wiesel
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But things I once thought were funny are scary now. I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava.
—Tom Lehrer
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Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
—Marcus Aurelius
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Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n’ont point coutume d’en désirer plus qu’ils en ont. Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
—René Descartes
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
—John Milton
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Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
—Bertolt Brecht
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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
― Kenneth Grahame
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
—Screwtape
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed—my dearest pleasure when free.
—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It’s much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
— Paul David Hewson (aka Bono)
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If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it … it possesses you.
—Frank Sinatra
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Il faut bonne mémoire après qu’on a menti. You need a good memory after you’ve lied.
—French Proverb
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The older you get, the better you realize you were.
—George Carlin
