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| #8553 |  | The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
 
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| #8554 |  | The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. 
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| #8555 |  | The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence.  He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless
 existence recurring eternally.  The second characteristic of such a man is
 that he has the strength to recognise -- and to live with the recognition --
 that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones.
 He creates himself by fashoning his own values; he has the pride to live
 by the values he wills.
 -- Nietzsche
 
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| #8556 |  | The sudden sight of me causes panic in the streets. They have yet to learn -- only the savage fears what he does not understand.
 -- The Silver Surfer
 
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| #8557 |  | The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
 -- Nietzsche
 
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| #8558 |  | The things that interest people most are usually none of their business. 
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| #8559 |  | The three questions of greatest concern are -- 1. Is it attractive? 2. Is it amusing?  3. Does it know its place?
 -- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"
 
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| #8560 |  | The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
 -- Sid Caesar
 
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| #8561 |  | The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. -- Andre Malraux
 
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| #8562 |  | The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. -- Miguel de Cervantes
 
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