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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Rudyard Kipling |
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
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Raymond Chandler |
"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
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Richard Whately |
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
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Robert Owen |
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
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Doris Lessing |
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Douglas Adams |
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Thomas Kempis |
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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Thomas Paine |
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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Mason Cooley |
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
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Jean Shepherd |
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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V. S. Pritchett |
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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Warren Farrell |
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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Washington Irving |
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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Washington Irving |
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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Washington Irving |
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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William Ellery Channing |
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
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Elbert Hubbard |
I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.
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Charles Anthon |
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