Quote by Will Durant
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. – Will Durant

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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I like refried beans. Thats why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe theyre just as good and were just wasting time. You dont have to fry them again after all. – Mitch Hedberg

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Necessity never made a good bargain. – Benjamin Franklin

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. – Arthur Bloch

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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. – John Bolton

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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. – Gary Ross

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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know whats in it — they should, because they put it all in beforehand. – Saul Bellow

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