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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

-- Claude Monet

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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

-- Jerry Springer

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

-- Desiderius Erasmus

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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

-- Robert Browning

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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

-- Chauncey Depew

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Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

-- Samuel Butler

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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