"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"

Millet, Kate on privacy
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"Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or broken heart, is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on suicide
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on death
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"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."

Leonard, Gloria on pornography
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"Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes."

Unknown, Source on death
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

Santayana, George on death
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."

Brando, Marlon on privacy
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"There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself."

Hazlitt, William on public
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"I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word."

Carter, Helena Bonham on profanity   

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Jarrell, Randall on children
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"Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one."

Jeffrey, Lord on reputation
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"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."

Einstein, Elsa on trust
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on trust
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."

Howe, Edgar Watson on reputation
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Buffett, Warren on reputation
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"You can't think and hit the ball at the same time."

Berra, Yogi on baseball
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

Berra, Yogi on practice
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"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."

Shakespeare, William on farewells
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Berra, Yogi on goals
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"Forgive those who have hurt you."

Brown, Les on forgiveness
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"Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf."

Confucius on forgiveness
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend."

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on forgiveness
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"A man must learn to forgive himself."

Ficke, Arthur Davison on forgiveness   

"Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love."

Udkoff, Bob on hatred
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"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."

Luther, Martin on laughter
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."

Luther, Martin on integrity
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"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

Allen, James on dream
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on choice
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"For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together"

Woolf, Virginia on love
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"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."

Collier, Robert on conflict   

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less."

Sampras, Pete on competition   

"When you win nothing hurts."

Namath, Joe on football
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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