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The growth of your desires is not the way to perfection, as many people think. To the contrary, the more a person limits himself, the better he can understand his human dignity, and the more free, the more brave he becomes.
Leo Tolstoy
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson
He could afford to be generous, since he didn't have to pay for it himself. Most virtues were like that. People could take pride in how virtuous they were, but the fact was that as soon as virtue got expensive or inconvenient, it was amazing how fast it gave way to practical concerns.
Orson Scott Card
Morgan has the artist's mind; he says the simple things that clever people don't say; I find him the best of critics for that reason. Suddenly out comes the obvious thing that one has overlooked.
Virginia Woolf
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
Terry Pratchett
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
Christopher Hitchens
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
It is no use trying to sum people up.
The ones who count are those persons who
Martin Buber
The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.
Mychal Wynn
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Mark Twain
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Voltaire
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley