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| Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they d ... |
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| The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ... |
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| It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my ... |
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| What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of sc ... |
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| Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the es ... |
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| Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than m ... |
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| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are alwa ... |
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| Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the ... |
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| We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side on ... |
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