"When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate on women
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

Whitehead, Alfred North on action   

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

Mcginley, Phyllis on christmas
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"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida on law and lawyers   

"Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue."

Taylor, Jeremy on profanity   

"Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world."

James, William on spirituality   

"Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist."

Stallone, Sylvester on violence   

"The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents."

Lockwood, Belva on precedents
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"Man was predestined to have free will."

Luyah, Hal on power   

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

Hazlitt, William on prejudice   

"It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic."

Mcluhan, Marshall on criticism   

"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law."

Clark, Dick on humor   

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

Pope, Alexander on memory
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"Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin."

Rice, Wallace on hope
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on patriotism   

"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."

Mailer, Norman on twentieth century   

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are."

Browning, Robert on uncertainty   

"There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune."

Proverb on misfortunes   

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on socializing and socialism
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"The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd."

Chomsky, Noam on public   

"I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear."

Jong, Erica on sex   

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous."

Caine, Mark on planning   

"The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion."

Wolf, Naomi on beauty   

"Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth."

Fitzhugh, C. on sorrow   

"Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?"

Brodsky, Joseph on racism   

"The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors."

Bierce, Ambrose on congress   

"Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings."

Madwed, Sidney on thoughts and thinking
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"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him."

Cervantes, Miguel De on friends and friendship   

"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."

Erasmus, Desiderius on criticism   

"The new organization is edgeless, permeable, amorphous... constantly re-forming according to need."

Unknown, Source on organization   

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."

Madonna on poverty and the poor
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"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."

Shaw, George Bernard on patriotism   

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on business