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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

—Eric Hoffer

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more…and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

—Winston Churchill

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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You have to learn to be unafraid when you’re a nobody, because you’re going to be really fucking afraid when you’re a somebody and all the lights are on you.

—Lady Gaga

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

—Abraham Lincoln

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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

—Johnny Carson

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

—Steven Weinberg

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When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

—George Halas

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

—Penn Jillette

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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

—Bill Watterson

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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