Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
R. Kelly
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
Thomas Aquinas
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
S. Ansky
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Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.
Elinor Wylie
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
Plato
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I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.
Erik Spiekermann
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Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wilde
