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| It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. |
Anatole France |
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| One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. |
Anatole France |
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| To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. |
Anatole France |
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| The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. |
Anatole France |
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| To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. |
Anatole France |
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| It is better to understand little than to understand a lot. |
Anatole France |
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| When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. |
Anatole France |
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| It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. |
Anatole France |
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| The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. |
Anatole France |
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| A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. |
Anatole France |
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| Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. |
Anatole France |
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| All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another. |
Anatole France |
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| People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them. |
Anatole France |
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| Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. |
Arabic Parable |
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| We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. |
Randolph Bourne |
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| Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. |
Randolph Bourne |
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| Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. |
Randolph Bourne |
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| The sweetest of all sounds is praise. |
Xenophon |
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| If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. |
Xenophon |
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| Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. |
E. M. Cioran |
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| Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish. |
E. M. Cioran |
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| From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need. |
Karl Marx |
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| Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. |
Karl Marx |
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| Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. |
Archibald Cox |
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| A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. |
Archibald Cox |
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| You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis. |
John Dean |
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| I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it. |
John Dean |
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| An answer is always a form of death. |
John Dean |
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| There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. |
John Dean |
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| Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think |
Swingers |
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| Trent You're so money and you don't even know it |
Swingers |
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| Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know |
Swingers |
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| Trent Let me tell you something Mike your money, and you know what else, your a big winner. I'm gonna ask you a simple question and I want you to listen to me who's the big winner here tonight at the casino Huh Mikey, that's who. Mikey's the big winner. Mikey wins. |
Swingers |
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| Trent I'm telling you baby, you always double down on 11. |
Swingers |
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| Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man. |
Swingers |
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| Mike & Trent Vegas baby Vegas |
Swingers |
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| Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here |
Swingers |
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| Live free or die. |
New Hampshire State Motto |
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| If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. |
Ronnie Lott |
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| Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. |
Satchel Paige |
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| Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you. |
Satchel Paige |
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| Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. |
J. Paul Getty |
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| Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still |
J. Paul Getty |
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| If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. |
J. Paul Getty |
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| No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. |
J. Paul Getty |
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| The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. |
J. Paul Getty |
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| It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
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| Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte. |
Plato |
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| Thinking The talking of the soul with itself. |
Plato |
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| Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. |
Plato |
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| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |
Plato |
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| At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. |
Plato |
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| Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something. |
Plato |
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| If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. |
Plato |
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| Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. |
Plato |
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| So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain. |
Plato |
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| The harder you work, the luckier you get. |
Plato |
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| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. |
Plato |
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| The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed. |
Plato |
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| Philosophy is the highest music. |
Plato |
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| The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. |
Plato |
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| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
Plato |
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| You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. |
Plato |
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| The greatest wealth is to live content with little. |
Plato |
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| Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. |
Plato |
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| The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. |
Plato |
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| The life which is unexamined is not worth living. |
Plato |
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| Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. |
Plato |
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| Life must be lived as play. |
Plato |
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| Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. |
Plato |
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| No human thing is of serious importance. |
Plato |
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| Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. |
Plato |
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| Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. |
Plato |
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| There is no such thing as a lover's oath. |
Plato |
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| Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. |
Plato |
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| The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. |
Plato |
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| Death is not the worst than can happen to men. |
Plato |
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| The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. |
Plato |
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| Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death |
Plato |
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| No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. |
Plato |
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| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. |
Plato |
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| You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
Plato |
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| The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. |
Plato |
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| They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
Plato |
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| He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. |
Plato |
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| I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. |
Plato |
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| The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
Plato |
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| Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. |
Plato |
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| The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. |
Plato |
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| Friends have all things in common. |
Plato |
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| Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. |
Plato |
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| Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. |
Plato |
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| You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. |
Plato |
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| There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. |
Plato |
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| The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. |
Plato |
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