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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was
mad.
—Rafael Sabatini
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone
lives.
—A. Sachs
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Peace is much more precious than a piece of land...let there be no more
wars.
—Anwar Sadat
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The speech released by a wise man is full of feeling expressing his true
thought. Clumsy people whose language consists only in opening their
mouths are not wise people.
—H. Saddhatissa
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I
don't care.
—William Safire
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is
broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not
all bits have equal value.
—Carl Sagan
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all
who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at
Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo
the Clown.
—Carl Sagan
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In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe.
—Carl Sagan
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have
learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no
human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
—Carl Sagan
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
—Carl Sagan
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
—Carl Sagan
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates
it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for
children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his
own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of
himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect
wood, and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is only with the heart one can see clearly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
—Saki
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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
—Saki
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
—Saki
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have
reminiscences of what never happened.
—Saki
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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make
me happy.
—J. D. Salinger
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the
theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is
safe.
—Lord Salisbury
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
—Sallust
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good
deeds, merit, and honesty.
—Sallust
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We have bent over backwards with the amount of genuflecting we've done to
ingratiate ourselves with the Montreal community.
—David Samson
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his
mouth.
—Carl Sandburg
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
—Carl Sandburg
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake
in the morning.
—Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
—Carl Sandburg
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes
to work.
—Carl Sandburg
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...Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
—George Santayana
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey
the world.
—George Santayana
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness...Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
—George Santayana
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Sanity is madness put to good uses.
—George Santayana
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
—George Santayana
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
—George Santayana
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There is no cure for birth and death other than to
enjoy the interval.
—George Santayana
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All marriages are mixed marriages.
—Chantal Saperstein
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I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all,
we've been voting for boobs long enough.
—Claire Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
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There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to
face....One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves
as gods.
—Sargon, "Return to Tomorrow," "Star Trek"
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as
it should be.
—May Sarton
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Everything has been figured out except how to live.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to
do.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
—George Saunders' dying words
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They use different words for things in America. For instance they say
elevator and we say lift. They say drapes and we say curtains. They say
president and we say brain-damaged git.
—Alexi Sayle
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If we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.
—R. Schaeberle
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Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you
can get rid of him of the entire weekend.
—Zenna Schaffer
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At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since
that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher,
given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.
—Robert Scheer
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It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's
harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it
better.
—Stanley Schmidt
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Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing
them.
—Arthur Schnitzler
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of
the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
—J. W. Schopf
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People have overlooked the advantages of being a heroin addict. Heroin
addicts have no difficult, challenging, hard-to-solve problems. Heroin
addicts only have one problem. If you'll just get yourself addicted to
crack, you won't have any problems.
—Richard Schuldenfrei
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The nice thing about being a heroin addict is that you either have no
problems or one big one.
—Richard Schuldenfrei
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Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more
interesting than it really is.
—Charles M. Schulz
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia.
—Charles M. Schulz
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
—Charles M. Schulz
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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The
answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
—Charles M. Schulz
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I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
—Charles M. Schulz
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm
happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
—Charles M. Schulz
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The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're
sincere.
—Charles M. Schulz
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There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
—Charles M. Schulz
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There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
—Charles M. Schulz
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
—Albert Schweitzer
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only
ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and
found how to serve.
—Albert Schweitzer
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his
reverence for all of life.
—Albert Schweitzer
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all
be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
—Albert Schweitzer
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the
colours and textures that come alive in others.
—Albert Schweitzer
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and
cats.
—Albert Schweitzer
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always.
—Albert Schweitzer
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Think of the movie as kind of a remake of "King Lear," but with devils and
bosom-sprouting heads.
—A. O. Scott
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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital
to form a corporation.
—Howard Scott
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for
the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
—Florida Scott-Maxwell
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The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
—Scotty, "Star Trek"
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They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist—
—General John B. Sedgwick, last words, 1864
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day
always just exactly fits the newspaper.
—Jerry Seinfeld
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There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think
there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think,
"I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
—Jerry Seinfeld
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
—John Selden
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If you want divine justice, die.
—Nick Seldon
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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
—Peter Sellers
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There must be more to life than having everything.
—Maurice Sendak
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Never fall in love during a total eclipse.
—Senex, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive
and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing
rabbits singing about toilet paper.
—Rod Serling
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I have no doubt the Devil grins,
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins—
The other kind don't matter.
—Robert W. Service
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I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
—Madame de Sevigne
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Beauty is a simple passion,
but, oh my friends, in the end
you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
—Anne Sexton
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Singing makes all the sad people happy because it is the voice of
happiness.
—Joseph Shabalala
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I like life. It's something to do.
—Ronnie Shakes
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
—William Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
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Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but
patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
—Fool, Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night'
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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their
sport.
—William Shakespeare, "King Lear"
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
—William Shakespeare
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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
—William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
—William Shakespeare, "King Lear"
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Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
—William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
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Every why hath a wherefore.
—William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"
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Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
—William Shakespeare, Othello
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Exit, pursued by a bear.
—stage direction in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"
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Harp not on that string.
—William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
—William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
—William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
—William Shakespeare
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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
—William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
—William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
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I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
—William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
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I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale men's souls from their
bodies?
—Benedick, William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
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Kill me to-morrow; let me live to-night!
—William Shakespeare, "Othello"
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Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, "Hold, enough!".
—William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
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Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish.
—William Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
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Let me take you a button-hole lower.
—William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
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Must I hold a candle to my shames?
—William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
—William Shakespeare
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their
brains!
—William Shakespeare, "Othello"
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O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
—William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
—William Shakespeare
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Patch griefs with proverbs.
—William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
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Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
—William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
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The better part of valor is discretion.
—William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
—William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
—William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
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The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
—William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
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There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
—William Shakespeare
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be
—William Shakespeare
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
—William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
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A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.
—Gary Shapiro
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Contra dance is a form of dance that thrusts a different person of the
opposite sex into your arms every 30 seconds or so.
—Gary Shapiro
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...When these guys start out in the movie, they're just bad-asses. They
start out kicking the crap out of everybody. Bad guys come up and they're
like, "Yeah, whatever, get out of the way."
—Dean Sharpe, game designer, on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon
Jinn
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the
support of Paul.
—Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.
—Bernard Shaw
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
—Bernard Shaw
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice
about them.
—Bernard Shaw
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
—Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we
deserve.
—Bernard Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few.
—Bernard Shaw
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Higgins: Doolittle, you're either an honest man or a rogue.
Doolittle: A little of both, Guv'nor. Like the rest of us, a little
of both.
—Bernard Shaw, "Pygmalion"
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
—Bernard Shaw
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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
—Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
—Bernard Shaw
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He's a man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man
without originality or moral courage.
—Bernard Shaw
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never
learn anything from history.
—Bernard Shaw
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it.
—Bernard Shaw
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
—Bernard Shaw
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion.
—Bernard Shaw
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it
dance.
—Bernard Shaw
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
—Bernard Shaw
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
—Bernard Shaw
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
—Bernard Shaw
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh.
—Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
—Bernard Shaw
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their
respectability.
—Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other
countries because you were born in it.
—Bernard Shaw
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
—Bernard Shaw
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him
mad.
—Bernard Shaw
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She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of
speech.
—Bernard Shaw
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few
survive.
—Bernard Shaw
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point
than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
—Bernard Shaw
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
—Bernard Shaw
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
—Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
haven't got it.
—Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
—Bernard Shaw
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
—Bernard Shaw
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
—Bernard Shaw
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
—Bernard Shaw
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from
experience.
—Bernard Shaw
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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and
I say "Why not?"
—Bernard Shaw
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is
made.
—Ted Shawn
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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the
rabbit.
—R. E. Shay
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make
you pure?
—Harry Shearer
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A lady with one of her ears applied
To an open keyhole heard, inside,
Two female gossips in converse free—
The subject engaging them was she.
"I think", said one, "and my husband thinks
That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!"
As soon as no more of it she could hear
The lady, indignant, removed her ear.
"I will not stay," she said with a pout,
"To hear my character lied about!"
—Gopete Sherany
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The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and
to his imagination for his facts.
—Sheridan
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No violence, gentlemen—no violence, I beg of you! Consider the
furniture!
—Sherlock Holmes
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It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.
—Will Shetterly
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Immortality—a fate worse than death.
—Edgar A. Shoaff
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After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open,
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads
On today because tomorrow's ground
Is too uncertain. And futures have
A way of falling down in midflight,
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of
waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth
And you learn and learn
With every goodbye you learn.
—Veronica A. Shoffstall, "Comes the Dawn"
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Any great truth can—and eventually will—be expressed as a
cliché—a cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an
idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always
the last one off the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one
time, it was undoubtedly true.
—Solomon Short
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of
fools. Let's start with typewriters.
—Solomon Short
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation
of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the
fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be
creamed?
—Solomon Short
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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
—Solomon Short
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Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a
statue in honor of a critic.
—Jean Sibelius
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Liars ought to have good memories.
—Algernon Sidney
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Life is too important to take seriously.
—Corky Siegel
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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
—Jose Simon Diaz
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be
caught dead in otherwise.
—Roger Simon
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Prayer is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
—Lisa Simpson, "The Simpsons"
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He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.
—Sinbad
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If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.
—John Sinclair
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Suffocating together...would create heroic camaraderie.
—Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed," "Star Trek"
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Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.
—Carol Siskind
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Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable.
—Commander Sisko, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest
flights of art.
—Dame Edith Sitwell
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
—Dame Edith Sitwell
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on
truth.
—Dame Edith Sitwell
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Even rats learn from experience.
—George Skarbek
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B. F. Skinner
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.
—B. F. Skinner
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
—Cornelia Otis Skinner
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past,
only far more expensive.
—John Thomas Sladek
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If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
—Bobby Slayton
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Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're
alive.
—John Sloan
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this—no
dog exchanges bones with another.
—Adam Smith
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition.
—Alexander Smith
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In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
—David Smith
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
—Dodie Smith
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That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks
you're crazy.
—Evelyn E. Smith
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Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
—J. Winter Smith
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You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
—Liz Smith
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Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
—Malcolm Smith
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending
your left leg, it's modern architecture.
—Nancy Banks Smith
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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
—Roy L. Smith
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly
delightful.
—Sydney Smith
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I see your point...and raise you a line.
—Elliot Smorodinsky
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It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted
that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the
actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs
founded on faith rather than evidence?
—Raymond M. Smullyan
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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a
dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
—Snoopy
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By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
—Socrates
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
—Socrates
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
—Socrates
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away
from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in
your power—he's free again.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
—Susan Sontag
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed
or potential lunatics.
—Susan Sontag
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
—Susan Sontag
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A short saying contains much wisdom.
—Sophocles
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that
which seems.
—Robert Southey
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The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to
do something stupid.
—Art Spander
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After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after
all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.
—Spock, "Amok Time," "Star Trek"
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Change is the essential process of all existence.
—Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," "Star Trek"
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Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to
serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And
nothing can replace it or him.
—Spock, "The Ultimate Computer," "Star Trek"
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Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.
—Spock, "This Side of Paradise," "Star Trek"
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Every living thing wants to survive.
—Spock, "The Ultimate Computer," "Star Trek"
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Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
—Spock, "The Cloud Minders," "Star Trek"
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Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
—Spock, "The Squire of Gothos," "Star Trek"
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Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion.
—Spock, about love, "The Lights of Zetar," "Star Trek"
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I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to
any question.
—Spock, "This Side of Paradise," "Star Trek"
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I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without
constructive purpose.
—Spock, "The Squire of Gothos," "Star Trek"
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I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life.
—Spock, "The Galileo Seven," "Star Trek"
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If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
—Spock, "This Side of Paradise," "Star Trek"
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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death— even
vegetarians.
—Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," "Star Trek"
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Insufficient facts always invite danger.
—Spock, "Space Seed," "Star Trek"
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Insults are effective only where emotion is present.
—Spock, "Who Mourns for Adonais?," "Star Trek"
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It [being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is
logical and beneficial. We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for
personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.
—Spock, "Journey to Babel," "Star Trek"
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It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six.
—Spock, "The Galileo Seven," "Star Trek"