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"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
By George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 3
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."
By George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"
By Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
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"He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you."
By Friedrich Neitzsche
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"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
By Albert Einstein
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"He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist."
By Albert Einstein
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
By Buddha
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad."
By Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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"History is a vision of God?s creation on the move."
By Arnold Toynbee
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"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."
By Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
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"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword."
By The Koran
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"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
By Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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"Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?"
By William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
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"Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens."
By Woodrow Wilson
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"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."
By Abraham Lincoln
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
By George Bernard Shaw
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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
By Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
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"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?"
By E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View"
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
By V?clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
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