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"Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant."
By Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
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"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
By John Wesley
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"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
By Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave
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"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
By Marcel Marceau
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
By Benjamin Disraeli
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"My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go."
By Oscar Wilde
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"Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
By Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
By J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
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"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."
By P.T. Barnum
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"May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends."
By Irish Blessing
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
By Oscar Wilde
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
By Gene Fowler
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
By Benjamin Disraeli
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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
By John Erskine
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
By Blaise Pascal
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"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
By E. Joseph Crossman
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
By William Hazlitt
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"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
By George Bernard Shaw
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"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
By Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
By J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
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