"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure..."

Gould, Gerald on sin   

"No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy."

Beecher, Lyman on controversy   

"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."

Half, Robert on acting and actors
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains."

Herrick, Robert on labor
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"One chance is all you need."

Owens, Jesse on chance
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"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty."

Voltaire on work
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"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing"

Leschak, Peter M. on focus
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"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on life
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Everett, Edward on education
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"One thought driven home is better than three left on base."

Liter, James on action
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joubert, Joseph on truth
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

Socrates on wealth   

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."

Mizner, Addison on law and lawyers
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"Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate."

Matthews, Andrew on idols
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change."

Popoff, Frank on success
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Chomsky, Noam on freedom
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

Shaw, George Bernard on lies and lying
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"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."

Bergman, George E. on tact and tactfulness
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"Court... a place where they dispense with justice."

Train, Arthur on court   

"Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history."

Hertzler on fools and foolishness   

"Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry."

Cromwell, Oliver on trust
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"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."

Adams, James Truslow on gossip
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"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

Korda, Michael on fools and foolishness   

"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on persuasion   

"Never Explainyour Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway"

Hubbard, Elbert on uncategorised   

"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."

Foch, Ferdinand on battles   

"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."

Crowley, Aleister on intolerance   

"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."

Zangwill, Israel on cleverness
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"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."

Yates, Douglas on love
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"Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Bierce, Ambrose on peace
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"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on life   

"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."

Diderot, Denis on flattery
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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