Alan B. Watts

According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is

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Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

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Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

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Greg Norman

I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody. (after losing the Masters tournament)

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Washington Irving

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

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Xenophon

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

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Stanislaw Lec

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

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Robert Frost

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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Dave Barry

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

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John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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