"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

Howe, Edgar Watson on fights and fighting
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"Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology."

Roth, Philip on fiction   

"Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men."

Saying, Hasidic on lies and lying   

"Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Thoreau, Henry David on passion
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"One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on humor   

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"The price for independence is often isolation and solitude."

Schmidt, Steve on independence   

"Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas."

Maclaren, Alexander on difficulties
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"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on smile   

"At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?"

Fawcett, Edgar on voice   

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"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."

Thomas, Dylan on business   

"When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

France, Anatole on plagiarism   

"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

Shakespeare, William on conversation
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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

Arendt, Hannah on twentieth century   

"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

Arendt, Hannah on family
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law."

Sutrakritanga on law and lawyers   

"Retirement: Statutory senility."

O'Donnell, Emmett on retirement   

"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."

Erasmus, Desiderius on age and aging   

"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"

Streisand, Barbara on liberals
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"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on truth
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"For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."

Aristotle on rebellion   

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"A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on action
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"The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement."

Thoreau, Henry David on words
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"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."

Austen, Jane on reserve
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"I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything."

Lennon, John on music   

"O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?"

Shakespeare, William on agents   

"There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch."

Addison, Joseph on business   

"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on reputation   

"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality."

Jung, Carl on spirituality   

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."

Williams, Bern on human spirit   

"The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers."

Lewes, George Henry on genius
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"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."

Rich, Adrienne on body   

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

Bresson, Robert on cinema   

"If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order, I'd reply, so I can go on drinking and smoking!"

Bunuel, Luis on sex
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"Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit."

Seneca on shame   

"The worst of revolutions is a restoration."

Fox, Charles James on evolution   

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Conrad, Joseph on sea   

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"Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher. "

Spencer, Herbert on uncategorised
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