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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
Bill Maherborn 1956
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 133 (Cassell’s, 1907)
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Letter to the Daily Advertiser (21 February 1797)
We are all victims of mythology in one way or another. We are the inheritors, and many times the propogators, of a desire to believe what we want to believe, regardless of whether or not it is true.
JSJ.V. Stewart
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West1893–1980
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides481–407 BCPhœnissæ. Frag. 809. Reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Carl Jung1875–1961Psychology and Alchemy (1952), CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol1928–1987
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
ADAnnie Dillard1945–2026The Writing Life (1989)
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948