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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history - while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance - might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

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The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.

-- George Monbiot

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A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

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But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows.

-- Khalil Gibran

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He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.

-- Jess C. Scott

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A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment...

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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

-- Robert Schumann

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It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

-- Herbert Hoover

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