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“You're a sight for sore eyes.”

“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”

“You'll feel differently about these things when you're married.”

“It isn't so much the heat... as the humidity.”

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“I don't know much about Art, but I know what I like.”

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"Many of you share the burden of this knowledge tonight with me. But there is a difference. For finally I must be the one to order our guns to fire, against all the most inward pulls of my desire. For …"

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics1908–1973

#knowledge

"If ever there was a hard-headed and not a soft-hearted Sovereign it was she; if ever there was a place where there was little of that romantic sentiment of going abroad to do right and justice to othe…"

— Richard Cobden

Politics1804–1865

#justice

"Having been in many front of many courts where there is no jury. I studied history and so on and so forth and one looks at these things from an intellectual point of view and you look at the U.K. and …"

— Simon Mann

Military1952–2025

#mind

"The Grand Inquisitor explains that you have to create mysteries because otherwise the common people will be able to understand things. They have to be subordinated so you have to make things look myst…"

— Noam Chomsky

Philosophy1928

#knowledge