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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution."
By Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
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"Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think."
By Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
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"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
By George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
By George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
By George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
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"All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."
By Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
By Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
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"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
By W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
By Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)
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"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications."
By John Herro
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"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth."
By Henrik Ibsen
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"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well."
By Albert Einstein
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"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
By Albert Einstein
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"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"
By Richard D. Rosen
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"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
By Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
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"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."
By Geoff Arbuthnot
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
By Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
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"All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well."
By Marcus Aurelius
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"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
By Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."
By Greek proverb
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