"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."

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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."

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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

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"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."

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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."

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"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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