"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

Marx, Karl on unemployment
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

Feather, William on happiness
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

Burke, James E. on understanding
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"No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism."

Klassen, V. I. on understanding   

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects."

Fulbright, J. William on dissent   

"What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles. "

Fulbright, J. William on uncategorised   

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on dissent   

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."

Dryden, John on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"Learn what you are and be such."

Pindar on love   

"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on work
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"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

Shaw, George Bernard on courage
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"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

King Jr. Martin Luther on thoughts and thinking
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard on love
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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."

Bronte, Emily on tyranny   

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"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Canetti, Elias on decisions
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"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."

Lee, Harper on example
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"It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir."

Miller, Henry on letters   

"You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it."

Angelis, Barbara De on ask
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."

Jerome, Jerome K. on fallibility   

"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

Sagan, Francoise on love   

"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."

Hampton, Christopher on sophistication   

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

Hampton, Christopher on creeds   

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Bono, Edward De on mind
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"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

Acton, Lord on secrets
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

Mencken, H. L. on humankind   

"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

Mencken, H. L. on evolution
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"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself."

Trotsky, Leon on evolution   

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."

Trotsky, Leon on learning   

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

Descartes, Rene on common sense   

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on distrust
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"The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on twentieth century   

"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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