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Sarcastic Famous Sayings - 166
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Thomas Jefferson
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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Turkish
Who gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Alfred Austin
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.
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Pearl Bailey
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
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Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
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Francis Bacon
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Honore de Balzac
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site
Spend and be spent.
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Ulysses S. Grant
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
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Author Unknown
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
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