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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught."

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"If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession."

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