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It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
—Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain," "Star Trek"
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A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on
Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
—Thomas Ybarra
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—W. B. Yeats
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams,
Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
—W. B. Yeats
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You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very
long.
—Boris Yeltsin
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.
—Claudia Young
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
—Edward Young
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going
to those places.
—Henny Youngman
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
—Henny Youngman
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
—Lin Yutang
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One should never extrapolate from cute bone dinosaurs to evil bone horses
of death.
—Aryk I. Yvocuj, Dispenser of Wisdom