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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional." »Oscar Wilde
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"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world." »Reginald Blyth
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"Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word." »Amit Ray
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"Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas." »Voltaire
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"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." »Oscar Wilde
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"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is." »Thomas Arnold Bennett
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"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield." »Quintilian
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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them." »Solon
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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage." »William S. Burroughs
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"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good." »Baltasar Gracian
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"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little." »Leszezynski Stanislaus
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"War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them" »Anatole France
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray." »Oscar Wilde
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"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little" »Stanislaus
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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places." »Samuel Butler
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"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage." »Albert Camus
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"People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France
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"In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little." »Joe Martin
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." »Thomas Jefferson
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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer." »General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little." »Porterfield
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