"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

Syrus, Publilius on Anger
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on Dress
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"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture."

Paglia, Camille on Prostitution
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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

Swift, Jonathan on Blush
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on Anger
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. on Anger
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on Anger
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"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."

Sallust on Hatred
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Twain, Mark on Denial
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on Desire
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"I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Opera
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Imagination
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"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Expectation
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on Passion
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Dreams
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Perfection
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Self-confidence
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"A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe."

Bhagavad Gita on Conflict
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"I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative."

Casa, Giovani della on Conflict
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Absurdity
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"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on Absurdity
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"We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves..."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Conflict
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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

Einstein, Albert on Conflict
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"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Conflict
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"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

Hecht, Ben on Trying
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

Bacon, Francis on Trying
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on Trying
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Death and Dying
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Dreams
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Insanity
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"The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about."

Mescon, Micheal on Speakers and Speaking
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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

Sagan, Francoise on Jealousy
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"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."

Conrad, Joseph on Moon
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"The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness."

Lawrence, D. H. on Moon
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"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions."

Bartolme, Fernanda on Bosses and Employees
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"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Conflict
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"There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them."

Proverb on Children
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on Courage
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"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him."

Moustakas, Clark on Children
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