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Amusing Proverbs and Sayings - 147
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John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
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Jeff Pesis
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
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Cary Grant
I improve on misquotation.
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Oscar Wilde
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
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George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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D. H. Lawrence
I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
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Plato, The Republic
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
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Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
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Charles Krauthammer
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
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E. F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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G. K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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