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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. - Tom Stoppard

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. – Tom Stoppard

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

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Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone

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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. – Charles Olson

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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. – Aldous Huxley

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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace – or at least a genuine peace – the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. – Natan Sharansky

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