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Flannery O\'Connor
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
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Hippocrates
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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John Ruskin
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
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Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Ronald Reagan
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
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Bernard Mannes Baruch
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
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P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.
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