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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

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Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

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The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

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