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George Burns:

It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

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Petrarch:

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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John Wooden:

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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Eugene McCarthy:

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

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Voltaire:

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Willa Cather:

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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Rebecca West:

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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William James:

When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.’

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Sigmund Freud:

Such progress we have made! In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me as a witch, but now they are content to burn my book.

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Fiorello LaGuardia:

Politics is very much like taxes – everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don’t apply to him.

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Epictetus:

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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Abigail Adams:

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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Bernard Baruch:

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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Josh Billings:

It’s not ignorance does so much damage; it’s knowing so darned much that ain’t so.

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Blaise Pascal:

Not being able to fortify justice, they justified force.

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Jean Cocteau:

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

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Dave Barry:

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

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Henry Ward Beecher:

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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Jane Austen:

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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