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Small: Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so l
Robert G. Ingersoll
"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit eve
Robert G. Ingersoll
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself
Robert G. Ingersoll
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesnt pay Smith
Robert G. Ingersoll
"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dang
Robert G. Ingersoll
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven
Robert G. Ingersoll
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: Few rich men own their property their property owns them
Robert G. Ingersoll
"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
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Small: The principal cause of war is war itself
C. Wright Mills
"The principal cause of war is war itself"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
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Small: In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of gr
C. Wright Mills
"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
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Small: Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does
Groucho Marx
"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, an
George Santayana
"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: Ive had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasnt it
Groucho Marx
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: Room service? Send up a larger room
Groucho Marx
"Room service? Send up a larger room"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is
Groucho Marx
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: A mans only as old as the woman he feels
Groucho Marx
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients
George Santayana
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig
George Santayana
"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity
George Santayana
"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them
George Santayana
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have
George Santayana
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world
George Santayana
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it
George Santayana
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative refle
George Santayana
"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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Small: Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Groucho Marx
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: Those are my principles, and if you dont like them... well, I have others
Groucho Marx
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: Be sincere be brief be seated
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
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Small: I wasnt always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger
Bill Cosby
"I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home
Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it
Bill Cosby
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy
Bill Cosby
"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: It isnt a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all thats beautiful
Bill Cosby
"It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure
Bill Cosby
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
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Small: It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear
Henry David Thoreau
"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
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