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"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."	Erica Jong
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only."	Adam Smith
"Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."	Adam Smith
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."	Erna Bombeck
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Any fool can make a rule."	Henry Thoreau
"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."	George Santayana
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."	Fred Allen
"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."	C.S. Lewis
"Speed provides the one great modern pleasure."	Aldous Huxley
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."	Adlai Stevenson
"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."	Sam Brown
"Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats."	Blaise Pascal
"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."	C.S. Lewis
"When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze."	Thomas Carlyle
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."	Carl Sagan
"The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody."	Kurt Vonnegut

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