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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Ed Meese
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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

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"We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are."
the Talmud

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." 
- Henry David Thoreau

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"Fate leads those who are willing. The unwilling it drags."
-Seneca