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“Art is born of humiliation.”
W. H. Auden
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius
“After all is said and done - more is said than done.”
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
Gore Vidal
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
James Madison
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
Thomas Carlyle
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
H. L. Mencken
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.”
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Edward Snowden
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
Douglas Adams
“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Julius Caesar
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
Stephen Hawking
“Get busy living or get busy dying”
Stephen King