#aphorisms

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

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True love lasts forever.

_Joseph B. Wirthlin_

How ‘bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

_Jennifer Salaiz_

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

_Helen Thomas_

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

_Alan Dershowitz_

Fame then was cheap, and the first courier sped; And they have kept it since, by being dead.

_John Dryden_

If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

_Joseph Gordon-Levitt_

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

_James Huneker_

There shall be no love lost.

_Ben Jonson_

Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

_Dwight D. Eisenhower_

Religion is the opium of the masses.

_Karl Marx_

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

_Jalaluddin Rumi_

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

_Plutarch _

If I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

_Carol Alt_

You have my whole heart. You always did.

_Cormac McCarthy_

Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly.

_William Shakespeare_

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

_T.S. Eliot_

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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The greatest penalty of evildoing—namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

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I’m very confident my health isn’t going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

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There’s always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

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