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I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

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A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

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When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.

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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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