Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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quotistIt is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages; in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ~Thomas Reid
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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