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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."	Herman Melville
"[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right."	Henry Louis Mencken
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."	Henry Louis Mencken
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."	Henry Louis Mencken
"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt."	Henry Louis Mencken
"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."	Henry Miller
"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear."	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."	Alfred A. Montapert
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other."	George Jean Nathan
"A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place."	Tanielle Naus
"Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas."	Rolfe Neill
"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."	Elbert Hubbard
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."	Edmund Burke
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."	Abraham Lincoln
"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend."	Author Unknown
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book."	Author Unknown
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