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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap....
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. -- Samuel Johnso
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)...
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty.
It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world. -- Deng Ming-Dao...
The appreciation of the average visual graphisticator alone is worth the whole suaveness and decadence which abounds!
! -- Zippy the Pinhead...
The are hosts of dopes here, and it is not good for my blood pressure
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war.
.. The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a...
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major ground
he creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's histo...
The Ariosto of the North.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 40...

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