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Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers

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Rogers, Will. "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince." The Illiterate Digest. Albert & Charles Boni, 1924.

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I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

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Breton, Nicholas. A Farewell to Town. c. 1577.

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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 2, ch. 17.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 17.

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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein on Peace, edited by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden. Simon and Schuster, 1960, ch. 9. Originally from Letter to Franklin Roosevelt, 2 Aug. 1939.

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In our own lives, let each of us ask—not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself? In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask—not just how can government help, but how can I help?

Richard Nixon

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1973, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters

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Bruyère, Jean de La. Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle [The Characters or Manners of this Century]. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1688, ch. 4, no. 4.

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Bruyère, Jean de La. The Characters of Jean de la Bruyère, translated by Henri van Laun. Routledge, 1929, ch. 4, no. 4.

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Pitt, William. Speech in the House of Lords on John Wilkes. 9 Jan. 1770, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him...and in that way he becomes immortal.

Big Fish

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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Whatsoever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State governments. Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government. The duties of both are obvious in the general principle, though sometimes perplexed with difficulties in the detail.

John Quincy Adams

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams

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Adams, John Quincy. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1825, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ye are fallen from grace.

Apostle Paul

Galatians 5:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 5:4).

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Love, it's a motherfucker, huh?

Old School

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Old School. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Montecito Picture Company, 2003.

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Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

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It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness.

Out of Africa

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Out of Africa. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Mirage Enterprises, 1985.

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I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky.
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, I. 73.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Cloud." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

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I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Oliver Edwards

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Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 17 Apr. 1778.

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Edwards, Oliver. Quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. "The Argument of the Broken Pane." Dinner at the Connaught Rooms in Honour of the Released Prisoners. 16 Feb. 1912, Connaught Rooms, London, England, UK.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

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