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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
By Abba Eban
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"He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance."
By Ling Po, (Chinese, 701-762)
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
By Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
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"He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure."
By William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
By Henry David Thoreau
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
By Sir Winston Churchill
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"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."
By Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
By Benjamin Franklin
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
By Aristotle
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"Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty."
By Plato
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"He who would travel happily must travel light."
By Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."
By Edward Abbey
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"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
By Woody Allen
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"His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."
By Lord Alfred Tennyson
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"How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"
By Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."
By Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
By George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
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"He who has never hoped can never despair."
By George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
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"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
By Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
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"Hell is other people."
By Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
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