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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Author: Carl Sandburg Look
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Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Author: James Webb Look
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Author: Dogen Look
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Author: Athol Fugard Look
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Author: Daphne du Maurier Look
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Author: George Bernard Shaw Look
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Author: Ernest Hemingway Look
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Look
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham Look
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Author: Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999 Look
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Author: Bernard Bailey Look
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When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
Author: Nicolas Martin Look
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Author: Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip) Look
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
Author: Bob Edwards Look
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Look
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Author: Hansell B. Duckett Look
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
Author: William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii Look
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Author: Euripides Look
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Author: Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" Look
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Author: Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893 Look
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