"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on desire   

"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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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius on knowledge
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger."

Akhenaton on fear
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

Buddha on experience
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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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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"No three words have greater power than I Love You."

Unknown, Source on love
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"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

Yeats, William Butler on reason
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

Buddha on doubt
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Angelou, Maya on anger
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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

Yeats, William Butler on creativity   

"Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst."

Weckler, Walter on revenge
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"No more tears now; I will think upon revenge."

Stuart, Mary on revenge
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"Don't get mad, get even."

Kennedy, Robert F. on revenge
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."

Yeats, William Butler on nostalgia   

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Bronte, Emily on pride
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"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

Corneille, Pierre on revenge   

"As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds."

Buddha on wisdom
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"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

Guitry, Sacha on revenge
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"Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice."

Johnson, Samuel on revenge
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"I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky."

Callimachus on nostalgia   

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Jung, Carl on love   

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

Hobbes, Thomas on secrets
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are bad, and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men."

James, Margo St. on prostitution
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."

Dryden, John on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

Sade, Marquis De on pain
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"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth."

Adler, Polly on prostitution
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"The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder."

Carter, Angela on prostitution
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