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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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War
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

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Science
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Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world. – Tom Cochrane

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Health consists with temperance alone. – Alexander Pope

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke

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As strong as the United States is, we cant deal with terrorism alone. – Madeleine Albright

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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. – Sting

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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing theyre whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever theyve got. I cant possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg

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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. – Epictetus

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