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| The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Speech, April 14, 1906, Washington, D.C.. The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, ed. Brian MacArthur (1992). The “Man with the Muck-rake” is a character in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. ~ |
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| To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 41, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Be mischievous, it feels good. |
| ~ Dove Dark Chocolate, Promises Message ~ |
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| Simply being praised is of no substantial help at all: it does not increase people's good fortune, nor does it make them live any longer. If temporary pleasure is all you want, you might as well take drugs. Yet many people invest much money and even deceive their friends to win status. This is quite stupid. Their status and fame do not really help much in this life and do nothing for future lives. There is no point in being happy if we are famous, or unhappy because people speak ill of us. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, January 28, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| I did not care one straw. |
| ~ Terence, Eunuchus. Act iii. Sc. 1, 21. (411.) ~ |
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| It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed. |
| ~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. “Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars,” Rocking the Boat (1963). ~ |
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| If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then also there is no need to worry. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, January 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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