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One Will Seldom Go Wrong If One Attributes Extreme Actions To Vanity, Average Ones To Habit, And Petty Ones To Fear.
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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average
ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.
-- Friedrich Nietzshe (1844-1900) "Human, All-too-Human" (1878)
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One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall. -- Jefferson Airplane...
Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
-- Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables, the book...
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; One is silver and the other's gold.
This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence.
-- Vivian, "The Young One...
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed.
.. -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" (Conclusion, sct. 2)...
What we call human nature, is actually human habit. -- Jewel