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Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)


There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Sara Teasdale


No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.

Jean Jacques Rousseau


Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

Sir Winston Churchill


Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

Robert Green Ingersoll


The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"


If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire


Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory


The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

Niccolo Machiavelli


Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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Pope John Paul II's compassion for Jews on display at Skirball - Los Angeles Times

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:11:00 GMT
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