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• The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Play, Hypocrisy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Marriage, Wedding, Guarantees

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• Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

  "Obama Mocks Socialist Attacks: 'I Shared My Toys'" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

  Alexander Pope

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 430

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• Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Support, Principles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.229, Courier Corporation

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• Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Benefits, Principles

  Address to Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, 22 Jan. 1917

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• Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Peace, Men, World

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• I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

  Charles Darwin

  Art, Night, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.494, Broadview Press

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• The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
  And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
  The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
  These orders upward all of them are gazing,
  And downward so prevail, that unto God
  They all attracted are and all attract.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sports, Angel, Order

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.410, Tyché

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Fun, Distance

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• When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

  John Wooden

  Change, Next Day, One Day At A Time

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• I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Crazy, Mad, Tree

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• It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Morning, Night

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• We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Home, Men

  Remarks at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 26 Jan. 2003

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• I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.

  Colin Powell

  Military, War, Thinking

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• The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Men, Should Have

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• We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Earth, Loses

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• During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

  Melissa Bean

  Travel, Fall, Air

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• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  Michael W. Smith

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

  Alan Grayson

  Mistake, Military, Iraq

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• As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.

  Harry Reid

  Military, Blood, Iraq

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• The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Sex, Liberty

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