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Thomas Wolfe
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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Forest McDonald
Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.
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Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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Austin Farrar
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
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Anon.
A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
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Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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June Masters Bacher
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
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Walter Frederick Mondale
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
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Latin
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
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