"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

Chanel, Coco on women
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings."

Adair, John on leadership
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."

Ameringer, Oscar on politics
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"The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take."

Anderson, John B. on politics   

"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."

Bacon, Francis on politics
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."

Jefferson, Thomas on victory
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

Lao-Tzu on victory
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on ignorance
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."

Foucault, Michel on fascism   

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on destiny
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

Dante Alighieri on humankind
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"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

Heidegger, Martin on language   

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

Heidegger, Martin on death
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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

Foucault, Michel on madness
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"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."

Foucault, Michel on power   

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."

Anspacher, Louis K. on marriage
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"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Alexander, Shana on marriage   

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

France, Anatole on belief
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"The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet."

Dane, Frank on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Not a day went past when I was not filled with loathing and disgust at the decisions I had to make."

Monash, John on
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