The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this. ~Scott Lynch
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ~Emily Mortimer
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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You're a product just as much. A product of a product. The people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. The minister in your church, another product. ~Chuck Palahniuk
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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