"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   

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

Bierce, Ambrose on peace
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"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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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on debt
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."

Kubrick, Stanley on nations
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"WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. "

Orwell, George on uncategorised   

"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

Barber, Lynn on interviews   

"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

Stone, W. Clement on truth
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"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

Peale, Norman Vincent on praise   

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore."

Campion, Thomas on home   

"The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line."

Battista, Orlando A. on negotiation
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Zedong, Mao on power   

"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."

Khayyam, Omar on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on propaganda
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"Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze."

Sylvester, James Joseph on mathematics
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"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."

Dunne, Finley Peter on fanatics and fanaticism   

"With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."

Rogers, Will on congress   

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"I drink to make other people interesting."

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on orgasm
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on sex
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