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I BET WHEN NEANDERTHAL KIDS would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick heavy brows." Then they would get…
— Jack Handey
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and…
— Deepak Chopra
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
— Robert Browning
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To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
— George Santayana
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in…
— Louis Kronenberger
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior…
— Alexander Pope
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
— John F. Kennedy
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
— Charles Peguy
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but…
— Jerry Garcia
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
— Aldous Huxley
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
— James de la Vega
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
— Plutarch
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their…
— Marcel Proust
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to…
— Marya Mannes
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One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.
— Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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