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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. - Edmund Burke


Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. - Elizabeth Bowen


History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion. - George Santayana


Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick


Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? - Virginia Woolf


The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book, it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock


Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. - Fran Lebowitz


The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Edsgar Wybe Dijkstra


Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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