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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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Barbara W. Tuchman:

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

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Thomas Carlyle:

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

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Blaise Pascal:

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.

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Norman R. Augustine:

All too many consultants, when asked, ‘What is 2 and 2?’ respond, ‘What do you have in mind?’

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W. C. Fields:

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

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Salvador Dali:

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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Mark Twain:

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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William Safire:

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

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Thomas Browne:

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

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Phillip K. Dick:

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

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Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington:

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

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Thomas Henry Huxley:

I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.

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J. B. S. Haldane:

Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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Hugh Prather:

Don’t fight a fact, deal with it.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt:

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

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Albert Camus:

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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John Wooden:

Do not mistake activity for achievement.

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