"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on dream
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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."

Edison, Thomas A. on invention and inventor   

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

Galsworthy, John on ideals and idealism   

"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on anger
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."

Clinton, Bill on pessimism
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on civilization   

"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater."

Clark, Kenneth, Lord on civilization   

"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."

Allen, Hervey on civilization
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"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on studying   

"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time."

Taylor, James on time
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"The love of money grows as the money itself grows."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on money   

"First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on value   

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

Warner, Charles Dudley on generations   

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."

Weil, Simone on humankind   

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on trust
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"All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy."

Wastholm, Peter on hypocrisy
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"Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical."

Proverb, American on evil
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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on humankind
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"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

Buddha on meditation
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"Money begets money."

Proverb, Italian on money   

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van on music
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Byron, Lord on america
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"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."

Gallico, Paul on insults
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"It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on."

Unknown, Source on fools and foolishness
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."

Hoffer, Eric on manners
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on memory
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"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on doubt
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"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

Moser, Sir Claus on education
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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on dignity
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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on caution