one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
~ Franz Kafka
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Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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First delight, then instruct.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games.
~ Iain Banks
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
~ Audre Lorde
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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