Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. ~Matt Damon
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness; and there is a big difference. ~Ty Cobb
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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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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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. ~Epictetus
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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