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Richard Wagner:

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

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Elihu Root:

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

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John Burroughs:

Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?

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Francois de la Rochefoucauld:

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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Mark Twain:

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Thomas Wolfe:

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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H. G. Wells:

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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Bertrand Russell:

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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E. C. Bentley:

Each time, he had turned the conversation with the ingenuity born of fear.

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Nora Ephron:

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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Bob Cesca:

Libertarianism is like Scientology for politics.

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will Rogers:

We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that’s overfilled with everything we want.

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John Diefenbaker:

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

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John Gray:

The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment.

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Natsume Soseki:

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it—people are hard to live with.

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Jerry Coyne:

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

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I must say, it is somewhat disconcerting to run across a Wikiquote page for someone you once knew. Of course, he wouldn’t remember me on a bet, but we went to the same college and were casual acquaintances.

I recognized even then that he was brilliant.

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Eddie Cantor:

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

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William H. Seward:

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

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