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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi
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People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers... PS. - Ship of Fools

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Sotuknang has warned us. Our corn dies in the fields. There is no grass. The wells are drying out. When we call the clouds they no longer hear us. If we do the Niman Kachina wrong, Sotuknang will have no more patience. He will destroy the Fourth World. PS. - The Dark Wind

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An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. PS. - Jef Mallett

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"For education purposes only." - A1

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You bloated d*ckhead, you really are proof that evolution can go in reverse. - Cherise Sinclair

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And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.  www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-sp...

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That's too coincidental to be a coincidence. PS. - Yogi Berra

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Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. PS. - Wole Soyinka

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“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize, and sterilize you.” PS. – Tender is the Night

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The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death. - Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. PS. - B. F. Skinner

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"I'm not a philosopher, Harry...But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around." PS. - Butcher, Grave Peril

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I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence. PS. - possibly Christopher Moore

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Matt: Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale. John: What? Matt: It's a fire sale. Bowman: Hey! We don't know that yet. Taylor: Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done. Farrell: Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show... clip.cafe/live-free-di...

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But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations. PS. - Alan Weisman

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