"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

Williams, Tennessee on isolation
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"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on jesus christ
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"Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator."

Bagnold, Enid on sex
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."

Alexander The Great on grave
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."

Alexander The Great on medicine
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on unity
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"The higher the building the lower the morals."

Coward, Noel on morality   

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

Augustine, St. on experience   

"Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on knowledge   

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov, Isaac on morality
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

Aristotle on anger
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on animals
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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

Adams, Henry Brooks on morality   

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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women."

Decter, Midge on sex   

"You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again."

Doctorow, E. L. on sex
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."

Angelou, Maya on feminism
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Angelou, Maya on isolation
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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya on jokes and jokers
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

Davis, Bette on sex
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"If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all."

Dangerfield, Rodney on sex
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."

Augustine, St. on longevity
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."

Baldwin, James on sex
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