The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. - Antoine Rivarol

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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Antoine Rivarol

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

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It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

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Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

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Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

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Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

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And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

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Henry Miller

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Patrick Rothfuss

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colors stretched against the wind. Listen to me: these men know nothing of love. You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

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[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

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Eran Riklis

Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us.

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