A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon:

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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
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https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/19554/

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A quotation from Ash, Mary Kay:

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Just as you drifted through an entire day without a plan and accomplished nothing, some people drift through their entire lives. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, and one month at a time. The months run into years and span a life. It happens so gradually that they are unaware of how their lives are slipping by them until it’…
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https://wist.info/ash-mary-kaye/63041/

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A quotation from Martial:

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Being good is better far than seeming so.
[Refert sis bonus, an velis videri.]
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https://wist.info/martial/63032/

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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:

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But it was much earlier even than that when most people forgot that the very oldest stories are, sooner or later, about blood. Later on they took the blood out to make the stories more acceptable to children, or at least to the people who had to read them to children rather than the children themselves (who, on the whole, are quite keen on…
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https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/63028/

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A quotation from Post, Emily:

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To show lack of consideration for those who in any capacity serve us — whether in restaurants, hotels, or stores, or in public places anywhere — is always an evidence of ill-breeding as well as inexcusable selfishness. It is only those who are afraid that someone may encroach upon their exceedingly insecure dignity who show neither courtes…
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https://wist.info/post-emily/63023/

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A quotation from Truman, Harry S:

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Taft explained that the great issue in this campaign is “creeping socialism.” Now that is the patented trademark of the special interest lobbies. Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last twenty years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Secu…
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https://wist.info/truman-harry-s/39540/

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A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63015/

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A quotation from Billings, Josh:

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Human knowledge is very short, and don’t reach but a little ways, and even that little ways iz twilite; but faith lengthens out the road, and makes it light, so that we kan see tew read the letterings on the mile stuns.
[Human knowledge is very short, and doesn’t reach but a little way, and even that little way is twilight; but faith len…
»

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https://wist.info/billings-josh/1042/

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A quotation from Heschel, Abraham:

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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https://wist.info/heschel-abraham/25712/

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A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

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Richard found himself, on otherwise sensible weekends, accompanying her to places like the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, where he learned that walking around museums too long hurts your feet, that the great art treasures of the world all blur into each other after a while, and that it is almost beyond the human capacity for belief to …
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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/25815/

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A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Therefore, when the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed; and, just as apples when they are green are with difficulty plucked from the tree, but when ripe and mellow fal…
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https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/44610/

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A quotation from Milton, John:

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Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek;
Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
»

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https://wist.info/milton-john/63003/

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A quotation from Fry, Stephen:

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Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each other’s rooms and drink coffee — I suppose it would be vodka and Red Bull now — you share enthusiasms, you talk a lot of wank about politics, religion, art and the cosmos and then you go to bed, alone or together according to taste. I…
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https://wist.info/fry-stephen/62999/

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A quotation from Virgil:

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Blessed is he who has succeeded in learning the laws of nature’s working, has cast beneath his feet all fear and fate’s implacable decree, and the howl of insatiable Death.
[Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,
atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum
subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari.]
»

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https://wist.info/virgil/62995/

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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:

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On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much what seems like knowledge isn’t knowledge.
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https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/62991/

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A quotation from Baring, Maurice:

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Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
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https://wist.info/baring-maurice/62987/

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A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:

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Be at peace yourself. Then you will be able to bring peace to others.
[Pone te primus in pace, et tunc alios poteris pacificare.]
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https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/62969/

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A quotation from White, E. B.:

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I am beginning to feel a little more like an author now that I have had a book banned. The literary life, in this country, begins in jail.
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https://wist.info/white-eb/62965/

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A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

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Life is a disease temporarily relieved every sixteen hours, by sleep. The complete cure: death.
[Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les seize heures. C’est un palliatif. La Mort est le remède.]
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https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/62960/

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A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:

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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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https://wist.info/bible-nt/26826/

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