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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. – George Santayana
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. – Thomas Carlyle
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. – George Santayana
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens. – Deepak Chopra
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. – Dave Barry
Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. – P. J. O'Rourke
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. – George Herbert
Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing. – The Hitopadesa
Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject. – Chase LeBlanc
Skill to do comes of doing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. – Bernard Joseph Saurin
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man. – Dazed and Confused
Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man There's some spooky shit goin' on there. And it's green too. – Dazed and Confused
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. – Edmund Spenser
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. – J.G. Ballard
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. – Erich Fromm
Sleep is the best meditation. – The Dalai Lama
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. – Thomas Dekker
Sleep well. Wake inspired. – Nick B.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. – Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them. – Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... – Longfellow

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