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Iggy Pop
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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Saadi, On the Duties of Society
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
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Walt Whitman
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Benjamin Franklin
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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Michel de Montaigne
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
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Sacha Guitry
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Douglas Adams
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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