"What we play is life."

--Louis Armstrong, 1900-1971

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"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

--Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888

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"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

--Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984

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"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

--Herbert Henry Asquith, 1852-1928

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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."

--Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC

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"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

--Babe Ruth, 1895-1948

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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

--Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642

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"Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste."

--Saadi, 1184-1291

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"God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

--Izaak Walton, 1593-1683

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"Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own?"

--Piero Milani, 1964-

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"First think and then act."

--Wise Saying from the Orient

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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

--Alfred Adler, 1870-1937

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"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

--Johann von Neumann, 1903-1957

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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

--Horace Walpole, 1717-1797

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"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

--Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

--Voltaire, 1694-1778