University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger

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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence." - Luc de Clapiers de Vanvenargues

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein

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I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Tiberius

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

“Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them”
Tyrius Maximus

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

Maximus Aurelius

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star

G.K. Chesterton

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman

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(the Declaration of Independence) . . .

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another
and to assume, among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal
station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opionions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

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"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran

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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

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I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Buzz Aldrin

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"Patience is the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

And the rest of us deal with the reality.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff

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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus

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