"Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."

Mencken, H. L. on democracy   

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on vision
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death."

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
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"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Lennon, John on peace
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"You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too."

Capriati, Jennifer on focus   

"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on criticism
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"Decide that you really want to achieve the goal..."

Mckain, Robert J. on commitment   

"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

Buddha on hatred
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"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

Berra, Yogi on the future
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"A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family."

Scott, Thomas on inheritance   

"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

Joineriana on books - reading
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"Make a customer, not a sale."

Barchetti, Katherine on customers
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"Be your own palace, or the world is your jail."

Donne, John on self-sufficiency
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"Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best."

Robinson, James H. on excellence
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"Those who have free seats at a play hiss first."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Buchwald, Art on protest
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on business
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"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."

Nixon, Richard M. on president   

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"I wish I knew what I know now before."

Stewart, Rod on knowledge
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."

Wright, Steven on mind
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"Eternity -- waste of time."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on eternity
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

Bacon, Francis on courtesy
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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