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Quentin Crisp quote: "Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. Mitch Albom
William Jennings Bryan quote: "One miracle is just as easy to believe as another."
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another. William Jennings Bryan
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If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat. Joe Strummer
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Alistair Cooke
I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision. Charles Lamb
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In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. Morris Raphael Cohen