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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
Joseph Rickaby
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Terry Pratchett
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kin
Bertrand Russell