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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton
Children are all foreigners. Unknown
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Samuel Johnson
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges Duhamel
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. Dan Quayle
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself. Jeph Jacques
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
All phone calls are obscene. Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne
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