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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

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Kuralt, Charles. "On the Road" The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. CBS News Productions, c. 1980.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with truth.

Alfred Adler

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Adler, Alfred. Problems of Nerosis. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1930.

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The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.

William Osler

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Osler, William. Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings. Henry Schuman, 1950.

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I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Walter Alexander Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. "Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914." Laughter from a Cloud. Constable, 1923, I. 1.

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden-Party, June 1914. Midsummer Press, 1983, I. 1.

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Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people.

Keith Haring

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Haring, Keith. Journal entry. 7 July 1986.

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Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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Beerbohm, Max. "Laughter." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920.

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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

W.V.O. Quine

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Quine, Willard Van Orman. Theories and Things. Harvard University Press, 1981, ch. 23.

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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

William Osler

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Osler, William. Quoted in The Life of Sir William Osler, written by Harvey Cushing. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 1925, ch. 24.

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Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

Ad Reinhardt

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Reinhardt, Ad. "Twelve Rules for a New Academy." ARTnews, May 1957.

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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

James George Frazer

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. London: The Macmillan Company, 1922, ch. 4.

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford University Press, 1998, ch. 4.

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There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team.

Nick Hornby

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Fever Pitch

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Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life. Victor Gollancz, 1992.

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One man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 8:9).

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Guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:2

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Proverbs 7:2).

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Great men are not always wise.

Job 32:9

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 32:9).

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She speaks, yet she says nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 1, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 4.

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