"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman Theologian

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

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

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

"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"This world's a bubble."

"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."

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