"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead."

Allen, Woody on food and eating
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on history and historians
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats."

Allen, Woody on maturity
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"I am at two with nature."

Allen, Woody on nature
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"I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."

Allen, Woody on death
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member."

Allen, Woody on club
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"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."

White, William Allen on insanity
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"The noblest vengeance is to forgive."

Proverb on vengeance
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"All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together."

Unknown, Source on things and little things   

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John on drugs
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Acton, Lord on opinions
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"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

Nobel, Alfred on hope
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"Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk."

O'Malley, Austin on pride   

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up."

Jackson, Jesse on pride
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."

Allen, Woody on drugs
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"Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?"

Huxley, Aldous on drugs   

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

Huxley, Aldous on drugs
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"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source 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   

"Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body."

Freud, Sigmund on drugs
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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."

Cocteau, Jean on drugs   

"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."

Burroughs, William S. on drugs
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"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

Burke, Edmund on drugs
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"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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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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