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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." Robert Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere." Rebecca West 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"All of us who grew up before the war are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. The young are at home here. Their eyes have always seen satellites in the sky. They have never known a world in which war did not mean annihilation." Margaret Mead 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." Albert Einstein 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost." Margaret Mead 1.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night." Dorothy Parker Rate this Quote
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures-be what he is. And, above all, accept these things." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." Robert Zend Rate this Quote
"Death … is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." Helen Keller 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach." Ayn Rand 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." Buckminster Fuller 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots." George Santayana 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer." Ronald Reagan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important." Ayn Rand 4.2222 average rating Rate this Quote
"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." Rebecca West Rate this Quote
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order." Will Durant 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea." Richard Bach 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion." Rebecca West Rate this Quote
"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection." Richard Bach 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it." Tom Stoppard 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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