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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, a

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation
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Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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Ive got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. – Thomas Carlyle

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. – Christopher Hitchens

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I dont believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. – Tina Turner

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Its sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didnt Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck – and women loved it. – Robin Quivers

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A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. – Herb Kelleher

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