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Don't be cool. Like everything.

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Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

-- Benny Goodman

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

-- Ovid

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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

-- Ida B. Wells

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All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

-- Ernest Hemingway

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It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

-- Rodney Dangerfield

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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

-- James Lee Burke

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You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest).

-- Edmund Hillary

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