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Art and Culture
'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.
Stephen Hawking
PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century
3.5 · 30 votes · 21 reads
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Art and Culture
A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
3.7 · 14 votes · 7 reads
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Art and Culture
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.2 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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Society
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Tony Blair
PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century
4.7 · 59 votes · 200 reads
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Thought and Reason
''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?''
Robert Burton
EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century
3.5 · 12 votes · 82 reads
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Art and Culture
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.6 · 34 votes · 169 reads
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Thought and Reason
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Wentworth Dillon
PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century
3.9 · 50 votes · 131 reads
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Society
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
D. H. Lawrence
WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century
3.1 · 60 votes · 80 reads
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Government and Politics
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
W. H. Auden
PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century
3.4 · 41 votes · 123 reads
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Virtues
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity,
John Milton
PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century
3.8 · 64 votes · 84 reads
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