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The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind. ~G.E. Woodberry



War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill



If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot. ~Dean Smith



The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer



So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~Bertrand Russell



When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian



A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~George Herbert



The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~H.L. Mencken



Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo



There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin



A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. ~Ward McAllister



Think before you ink! ~Author Unknown



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph



God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith



Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyere, Les Caracteres, 1688



Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle

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