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We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

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