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"Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."	Christopher Morley
"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: "All hope abandon ye who enter here."	George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."	George Bernard Shaw
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."	George Bernard Shaw
"The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings."	Edward Gibbon
"Music is the universal language of mankind."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed."	George Carlin
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."	Thomas Jefferson
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."	Thomas Jefferson
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."	Thomas Jefferson
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Thomas Jefferson
"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."	George Eliot
"The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in."	John Greenleaf Whittier
"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."	George Burns
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."	Oprah Winfrey
"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?"	Ayn Rand
"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all."	Emily Dickinson
"I am not sincere, even when I say I am not."	Jules Renard
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."	Margaret Mead
"I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting."	George Orwell
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