"You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!"
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are."
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"There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies."
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"A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is."
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"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."
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"Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc."
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"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
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"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."
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"Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be."
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"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
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"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly."
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"He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath."
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"I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."
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"My brain? It's my second favorite organ!"
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"If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity."
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"Conquered people tend to be witty."
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"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
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"If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood."
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"I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading."
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