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“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” – Oscar Wilde
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one – if he had the power – would be justified in silencing mankind.” – John Stuart Mill
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ” – Aristotle
“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.” – Julius Caesar
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. ” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!” – Oscar Wilde
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.” – Charles A. Dana
“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ” – Katherine Mansfield
“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.” – Mark Twain
“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.” – F F Bosworth
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” – George Weiss
“When you come right down to it, I guess I’m a firm believer in the idea that if there’s any way you can postpone reality… you should.” – Chloe Webb
“They broke up for religious differences – she thought she was God and he disagreed.” – Honey I Shrunk the Kids
“If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being – you’d be a game show host.” – Heathers
“My teenage angst bullshit now has a body count.” – Heathers
“When we make mistakes they can it evil, but when God makes a mistake, they call it Nature.” – Witches of Eastwick
“It’s great to be young and insane.” – The Dream Team
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. ” – Sir Winston Churchill
“I’m the ghost with the most, babe.” – Beetlejuice
“Ah, this is the life – no hassles, no worries, no body.” – Beetlejuice
“A little gasoline… a blowtorch… no problem.” – Beetlejuice
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid… he is the hero; he is everything.” – Raymond Chandler
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Sir Winston Churchill
