"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."

Franklin, Benjamin on women
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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

Franklin, Benjamin on manners
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Franklin, Benjamin on love
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"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

Solotaroff, Ted on aggression   

"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish."

Cioran, E. M. on aggression
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on affectation
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

Mencken, H. L. on abuse
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"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Johnson, Samuel on abuse
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy."

Chomsky, Noam on anarchism   

"We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."

Keller, Helen on apathy
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak."

Chaplin, Ralph on apathy
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man."

Goldman, Emma on anarchism   

"People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all."

Wilde, Oscar on anarchism
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"The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen."

Shaw, George Bernard on anarchism
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

Paglia, Camille on anarchism
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
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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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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."

Macleish, Archibald on absurdity
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

Franklin, Benjamin on criticism   

"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose."

Franklin, Benjamin on conversation
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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

Franklin, Benjamin on control
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."

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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

Franklin, Benjamin on admiration