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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Erica Jongborn 1942
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Socrates470–399 BC
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
JHJiao Hong1540–1620Often credited to Confucius
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.
Madonnaborn 1958Sex
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (1599–1600), Act II, scene vii.In context
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford1863–1947
Always remember, others may hate you- but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Speech to the assembled White House staff before his final departure (August 9, 1974)
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Reported in Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller, Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers (1904), p. 429.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Terre des hommes (1939), Ch. 3: L’Avion, p. 60.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910