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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come not, when...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come not, when...

Come not, when I am dead,
To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
To trample round my fallen head,
And vex...

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Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.

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Stanislaw Lec: Every scarecrow has...

Stanislaw Lec: Every scarecrow has...

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Aristotle Onassis: The secret of...

Aristotle Onassis: The secret of...

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Source: In The...

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Lewis Thomas: Statistically, the probability...

Lewis Thomas: Statistically, the probability...

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would...

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Michelangelo: What spirit is...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...

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G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to...

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Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: If you bungle...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: If you bungle...

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very...

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Henry Kissinger: The absence of...

Henry Kissinger: The absence of...

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Source: In Webster's...

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Adolf Hitler: The broad mass...

Adolf Hitler: The broad mass...

The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small...

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Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,...

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Nikita Khrushchev: If one cannot...

Nikita Khrushchev: If one cannot...

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Source: In Time...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: What one man...

Arthur Conan Doyle: What one man...

What one man can invent another can discover.

Source: Sherlock Holmes in 'The...

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Hannah Arendt: The most radical...

Hannah Arendt: The most radical...

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Source: The dwarf Gimli,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The masters have...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The masters have...

The masters have been abolished; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: In...

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Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Source: In...

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