"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"

Young, Brigham on silence
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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

Burroughs, William S. on space
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"My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur."

Arran, Earl of on character   

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

Smith, Roy L. on christmas
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"Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs."

Mailer, Norman on liberals
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"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

Mailer, Norman on democracy
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on character
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eccentricity
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks."

Meredith, Owen on crime and criminals   

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right."

Anderson, Gillian on prejudice
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."

Strindberg, J. August on character   

"Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice."

Horton, Doug on choice
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"Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river."

Hull, Cordell on insults
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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."

Lynes, Russell on insults
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"Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on government
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"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Rogers, Will on congress   

"There should be one day when there is open season on senators."

Rogers, Will on congress   

"I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it."

Wilson, Henry on congress   

"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."

Sheen, Martin on god   

"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."

Henry IV on poverty and the poor   

"Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike."

Eliot, George on women   

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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on fights and fighting
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"And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."

Milton, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius."

Whitman, Walt on education   

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on experience
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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."

Melville, Herman on leisure
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"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter."

Propp Jr., Fred on life
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"Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas."

Wilson, Earl on debt   

"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on debt
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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

Bachelard, Gaston on sleep
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha on change
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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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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