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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!"

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality."

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