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Russell Baker:

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

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Alexander Pope:

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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Fran Lebowitz:

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

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Elbert Hubbard:

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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Virginia Woolf:

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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“Weird Al” Yankovic:

If money can’t buy happiness, I guess I’ll have to rent it.

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Gustave Flaubert:

Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.

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Benjamin Franklin:

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

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Abraham Lincoln:

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

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Dean Acheson:

The great corrupter of public man is the ego…. Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem.

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Pat Paulsen:

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

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Barbara Tuchman:

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

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Yip Harburg:

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

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Salvador Dali:

Many people do not reach their eighties because they try to stay in their forties too long.

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John Adams:

The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter.

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Henry Ward Beecher:

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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Rudyard Kipling:

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

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Madeleine L’Engle:

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

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