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As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. — George Carlin
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. — Woody Allen
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant… — William Ralph Inge
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less… — Max Beerbohm
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It… — Louis C. K.
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. — George W. Bush
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were… — Pat Robertson
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well. — John Cleese
I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her. — Olivia Munn
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. — Marianne Moore
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed… — Peter Drucker
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish. — Benjamin Franklin
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way… — Malcolm X
The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of… — Malcolm X

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