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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning th

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Seneca

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The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

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Events and external objects are, so to speak, but a neutral substance, which receives its colour and its significance from our soul. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Marriage is the death of hope. – Woody Allen

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It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. – Marion Zimmer Bradley

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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