"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

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"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

Nature

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

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"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

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"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

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"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

"Life is an incurable disease."

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."