Anonymous: Miscellaneous
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(You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle
A lake in Massachusetts named by the Nipmuck Indians, as interpreted (made up) by a newspaper editor. Also known as Lake Webster.)
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Anonymous: Miscellaneous
Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me cum benedictis.
(Quoted from "Boondock Saints"
When the wicked are confounded, doomed to flames of woe unbounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded.)
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Moltke the Elder: Miscellaneous
Strategy is a system of expedients. It is more than science, it is the translation of science into practical life, the development of an original leading thought in accordance with the ever-changing circumstances.
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Frank Herbert: Miscellaneous
Have you ever stared into the eyes of a religious fanatic, Baron? Suicide and martyrdom are often the same thing.
(Spoken by Emperor Shaddam IV, character from Dune)
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President Ronald Reagan: Miscellaneous
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Miscellaneous
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
(Tombstone of Billy Pilgrim, a character from Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’)
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Brother David Vryhof: Miscellaneous
I have met adults whose happiness depends heavily on their salary level, the opportunities they are getting, the treatment they are receiving from their boss or co-workers, whether they receive the job or promotion they want, or on similar factors. But the truth is that when we build our lives on these things, we are doomed to a never-ending struggle that will always fail us in the end.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view...
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
(The Shootist, 1979)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
(Playboy interview, May 1971)
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John Wayne: Miscellaneous
If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.
(Academy Awards speech for Best Actor in True Grit, 1969)
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