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  Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  Mae West

  Funny, Relationship, Sexy

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  Athol Fugard

  Love, Anger, Inspiration

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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  Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Birthday, Death

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

  Woody Harrelson

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. May 31, 2013.

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• What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Party, Responsibility, Ideas

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• Every child has the capacity to be everything.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Children

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

  Brendan Behan

  Peace, War, Novelists

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• The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Poetry, Novelists, Aristocracy

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Knowledge

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate nation. Because I am half Ojibway and half Caucasian, we will be called the Occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a Special Occasion.

  Drew Hayden Taylor

  Funny, Race, Years

  Drew Hayden Taylor (1998). “Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations of a Blue-eyed Ojibway”, Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books, l998.

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• In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Life, Hate, Believe

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• Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Men, Land

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• You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, People, Novelists

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 16), 1998.

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