S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.

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Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

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Aristotle

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

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Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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Liz Winston

When mom found my diaphram, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

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