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"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."	Richard Bach
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."	Richard Bach
"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing … There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top."	Margaret Thatcher
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	George Santayana
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."	George Santayana
"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."	George Santayana
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."	Jonathan Swift
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."	Christopher Morley
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life."	Christopher Morley
"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."	Marianne Moore
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."	Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."	Robert Frost
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."	Ronald Reagan
"The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one … being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap … being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."	George Bernard Shaw
"As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."	Dorothy Parker
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."	Aldous Huxley
"Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations."	Aldous Huxley
"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."	Tom Stoppard
"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."	Tom Stoppard
"Old age is a shipwreck."	Charles De Gaulle
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