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John Cleese1

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The biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel GOOD because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in YOU. Attractive, isn't it? So, if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons! And if it wasn't for them, you'd actually be good natured, and courteous, and rational all the time. So, if you want to FEEL GOOD, become an extremist You can strut around, abusing people, and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth. A fighter for the greater good. And not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Jesus Christ

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You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
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But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
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Don't Point a finger when you can lend a hand?
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Don't Point a finger when you can lend a hand?
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I’ve often wondered...what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer - a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat." Ronald Reagan
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I’ve often wondered...what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer - a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat." Ronald Reagan
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I’ve often wondered...what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer - a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat." Ronald Reagan in a speech to the United Nations.
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Take what you need and leave the rest
Robbie Robertson

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Take what you need and leave the rest
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Robert C. Solomon11

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Philosophy is not about finding the absolute truth, but about the seductiveness with with one molds his personal attitudes into ideas.
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A man loses his umbrella, and he search around for it all day, but he loses himself- and he does not even notice.
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Our local police department wanted to expand the counter-terrorism division by adding a bomb-sniffing dog. Due to budget cuts they could only afford a butt-sniffing dog.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower13

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
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The things we do for love: like walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go and you're feeling like a part of you is dying.
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Really exciting, interesting when I read the script, almost 80 percent I was playing alone.Yes, a new experience,2 days filming,the fastest shoot I've ever done. I was filming all day in the room.
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Really exciting, interesting when I read the script, almost 80 percent I was playing alone.Yes, a new experience,2 days filming,the fastest shoot I've ever done. I was filming all day in the room.
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Tom Chatfield11

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Onscreen words are a special species of self-presentation — a form of storytelling in which the very idea of ‘us’ is a fiction crafted letter by letter.
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Fairy tales are more than true:not because they tell us that dragons exist,but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
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The Earth without art is just "eh"
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Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening--, it just stops you from enjoying the good
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Tom Chatfield11

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What kind of attention do we deserve from those around us, or owe to them in return? What kind of attention do we ourselves deserve, or need, if we are to be ‘us’ in the fullest possible sense? These aren't questions that even the most finely tuned popularity contest can resolve. Yet, if contentment and a sense of control are partial measures of success, many of us are selling ourselves far too cheap.
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments — or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
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Hail, Caesar, those about to die salue you
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A sound mind in a sound body
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Douglas Adams1

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One of the things that is hardest to understand about humans is their habit of continually stating and repeating the very, very obvious, as in "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?
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If you obey all the rules you miss out on the fun" ~Katherine Hepburn~
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If you obey all the rules you miss out on the fun" ~Katherine Hepburn~
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.
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