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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

The average person thinks he isn't.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

After all, he thought he was God.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

"A penny for your thoughts?" "A dollar for your death."

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

Ferris Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.