"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on anecdotes
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Browning, Robert on autumn   

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"The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised   

"The saving man becomes the free man."

Proverb, Chinese on freedom
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"Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation."

Landau, Saul on taxes and taxation
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"A half truth is a whole lie."

Proverb, Yiddish on truth
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Bacon, Francis on lies and lying   

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"Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying   

"Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant."

Proverb on ignorance
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"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on lies and lying
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"Liars are always ready to take oaths."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on lies and lying
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

Shaw, George Bernard on sanity
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"I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."

Keynes, John Maynard on conservatives   

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

King Jr. Martin Luther on right and rightness
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"Nothing can come of nothing."

Shakespeare, William on effort
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"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."

Shakespeare, William on fame
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Burroughs, John on age and aging
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