"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

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"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."

Uri Geller, Israeli Entertainer

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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?"

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

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"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

Dean Inge, English Author

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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

John Selden, English Statesman

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"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

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"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

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"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."

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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

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"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."

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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

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