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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possibly only in one way.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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We are what we repeatedly do.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
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What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or, what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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