Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth

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Benjamin Disraeli

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

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Jay Leno

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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Unknown, epitaph for a loved one

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.

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May Lamberton Becker

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.

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Oscar Levant

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy

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Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy

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