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H. L. Mencken
All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
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Ann Landers
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
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Edward Teller
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
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Euripides
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Voltaire
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Dr. Robert Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
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Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
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Irish Proverb
Better be quarreling than lonesome.
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Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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