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Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine


Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.

Tony Bennet


I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Charles M. Schulz


Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.

Richard Milhous Nixon


While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

Paxton Hood


Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

George Gilder


If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Homer, The Iliad


It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Harold Bloom


I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.

Henry David Thoreau


We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

American Indian Proverb


We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

Seneca


We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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