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"There are certainly moments," said Chad,....
"There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."-- Henry James
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The Puritans gave thanks for being....
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.-- Finley Peter Dunne
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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they....
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.-- H. P. Lovecraft
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Who so would be a man,....
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not do to others what....
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.-- Socrates
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There is nothing wrong with America....
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.-- Bill Clinton
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In general, the greater the understanding,....
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.-- George Orwell
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of....
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.-- Ambrose Bierce
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I LIKE ads. It's not that....
I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place.-- Bill Barnes
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In order to improve the mind,....
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.-- Rene Descartes
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Lead me not into temptation; I....
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.-- Rita Mae Brown
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When a child asks you something,....
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake!-- Harper Lee
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Technological progress has merely provided us....
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.-- Aldous Huxley
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The postman always rings twice.-- James....
The postman always rings twice.-- James M. Cain
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Eloquence is in the assembly, not....
Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.-- William Pitt
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It isn't kind to cultivate a....
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.-- Lawana Blackwell
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Tomorrow's life is too late. Live....
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.-- Marcus Valerius Martialis
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For whom the Lord loveth he....
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.-- Bible
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter....
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.-- Garrison Keillor
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would....
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?-- Ambrose Bierce
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Art washes away from the soul,....
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.-- Pablo Picasso
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We cherish our friends not for....
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.-- Evelyn Waugh
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Doubts are more cruel than the....
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.-- Moliere
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LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders....
LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.-- Ambrose Bierce
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There are some defeats more triumphant....
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.-- Michel de Montaigne
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Trade-offs have been with us ever....
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.-- Thomas Sowell
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The intermediate stage between socialism and....
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.-- Norman Brenner
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Once conform, once do what other....
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.-- Virginia Woolf
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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation....
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.-- Lewis Thomas
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You give but little when you....
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.-- Kahlil Gibran
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Knowledge is love and light and....
Knowledge is love and light and vision.-- Helen Keller
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If you put butter and salt....
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.-- Terry Pratchett
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All your life you live so....
All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.-- Tom Stoppard
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The hardest thing in life is....
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.-- David Russell
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One doesn't discover new lands without....
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide
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Never do anything when you are....
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.-- Baltasar Gracian
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Once you figure out who you....
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."-- Jennifer Aniston
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one....
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.-- Ambrose Bierce
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if....
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.-- Flannery O'Connor
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulness....
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.-- Robert Herrick
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It is a common enough case,....
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.-- George Eliot
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You can't separate peace from freedom....
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.-- Malcolm X
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Courage and perseverance have a magical....
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.-- John Quincy Adams
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If a rhinoceros were to enter....
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.-- G. K. Chesterton
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The men who had hated [the....
The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. --
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I think the first virtue is....
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.-- Cato the Elder
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Let us make a special effort....
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.-- Judith Martin
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Once a word has been allowed....
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.-- Horace
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It is difficult to produce a....
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.-- Rod Serling
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I was not born to be....
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.-- Henry David Thoreau
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It never pays to deal with....
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.-- Sue Grafton
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For a successful technology, reality must....
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.-- Richard Feynman
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After a certain high level of....
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.-- Albert Einstein
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It is foolish to wish for....
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.-- Anne Bronte
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A diplomat is a person who....
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.-- Caskie Stinnett
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No one should do a job....
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.-- Cory Doctorow
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Ask not what you can do....
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.-- Orson Welles
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Happiness is seeing your mother-in-law's picture....
Happiness is seeing your mother-in-law's picture on the back of a milk carton.-- Anonymous
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What is conservativism? Is it not....
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?-- Abraham Lincoln
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I am just going outside and....
I am just going outside and may be some time.-- Captain Lawrence Oates
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A soft answer turneth away wrath:....
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.-- Bible
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You see, wire telegraph is a....
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.-- Albert Einstein
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I prefer the company of peasants....
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.-- Michel de Montaigne
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The true test of a civilization....
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the cropsno, but the kind of man the country turns out.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of intelligence is skill....
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.-- Unknown
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[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political....
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.-- Pat Robertson
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Ignorance and bungling with love are....
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.-- Henry David Thoreau
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The sands are number'd that make....
The sands are number'd that make up my life.-- William Shakespeare
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It's innocence when it charms us,....
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.-- Mignon McLaughlin
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That man that hath a tongue,....
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,-- William_Shakespeare/"
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It is difficult to get a....
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.-- Upton Sinclair
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Love is a gross exaggeration of....
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.-- William Shakespeare
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Life itself is a quotation.-- Jorge....
Life itself is a quotation.-- Jorge Luis Borges
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Consult your friend on all things,....
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.-- Seneca
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Let us so live that when....
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.-- Mark Twain
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Help thy brother's boat across, and....
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore. -- Hindu Proverb
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking....
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.-- Ambrose Bierce
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You're not drunk if you can....
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.-- Dean Martin
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Good taste is the enemy of....
Good taste is the enemy of creativity-- Pablo Picasso
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Any fool can make a rule,....
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.-- Henry David Thoreau
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Truth fears no questions.-- Anonymous ....
Truth fears no questions.-- Anonymous
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When my country, into which I....
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.-- Thomas Paine
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Train up a fig tree in....
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.-- Charles Dickens
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope....
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.-- Sharon Salzberg
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Repression is not the way to....
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Nonviolence is the answer to the....
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Even on the highest throne in....
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.-- Michel de Montaigne
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A book of quotations . .....
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.-- Robert M. Hamilton
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Like all weak men he laid....
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.-- W. Somerset Maugham
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If you shoot at mimes, should....
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?-- Steven Wright
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Old people think young people haven't....
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. -- Isaac Asimov
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Teaching is as sacred as priesthood.....
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.-- Pearl Buck
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ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given....
ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.-- Ambrose Bierce
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One ought every day at least....
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All action is of the mind....
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.-- Cicero
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If marriage is your object,-- Author....
If marriage is your object,-- Author Unknown
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A better world shall emerge based....
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.-- General Douglas MacArthur
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Use what talents you possess: the....
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.-- Henry Van Dyke
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EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving....
EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.-- Ambrose Bierce
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Not nail a great star to....
Not nail a great star to its track, . . .--
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People in general are scared to....
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.-- Frida Kahlo
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No one can be a great....
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.-- John Stuart Mill
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It's not my Goddamn planet! Understand,....
It's not my Goddamn planet! Understand, Monkey-Boy?-- Unknown (can you tell me?)
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Writers should be read but not....
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.-- Edna Ferber
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Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty,....
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.-- John Calhoun
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Many a man has finally succeeded....
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.-- Orison Swett Marden
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People often grudge others what they....
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.-- Aesop
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Liberty is rendered even more precious....
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.-- Cicero
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Any artist should be grateful for....
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.-- Saul Bellow
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it....
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.-- Horace
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If you laid all of the....
If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.-- Unknown
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously....
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.-- Vaclav Havel
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a....
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.-- Ambrose Bierce
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We are so vain that we....
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.-- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Nature is trying very hard to....
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that....
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.-- M. C. Escher
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They say that women talk too....
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.-- Clare Booth Luce
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When the president decides something on....
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.-- Stephen Colbert
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A writer is not a confectioner,....
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.-- Anton Chekhov
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The wicked flee when no man....
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.-- Bible
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.-- Alfred....
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.-- Alfred North Whitehead
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I don't really think about anything....
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.-- Pamela Anderson
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It is a truth universally acknowledged,....
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.-- Jane Austen
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A prince should therefore have no....
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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What other people think about me....
What other people think about me is not my business.-- Michael J. Fox
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The basic fact about human existence....
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.-- H. L. Mencken
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What's coming will come and we'll....
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.-- J. K. Rowling
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There is always a well-known solution....
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.--
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The past is but the past....
The past is but the past of a beginning.-- H. G. Wells
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When I consider the small span....
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.-- Blaise Pascal
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It is a bad plan that....
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.-- Publilius Syrus
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ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary....
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.-- Ambrose Bierce
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When we are unhurried and wise,....
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.-- Henry David Thoreau
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What the superior man seeks is....
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.-- Confucius
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Competition is a painful thing, but....
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.-- Jerry Flint
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Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying....
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.-- Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of....
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.-- Christopher Lasch
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Do not go where the path....
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know [patriotism] exists, and I....
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.-- George Washington
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Existence would be intolerable if we....
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.-- Anatole France
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Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory.....
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.-- Tom Robbins
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I simply cannot understand the passion....
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.-- Patricia Moyes
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Tell me what company you keep....
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.-- Miguel de Cervantes
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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply....
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."-- Peter McWilliams
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a....
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.-- Seneca
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Every time one laughs a nail....
Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin. -- Honduran Proverb
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Fools rush in where fools have....
Fools rush in where fools have been before.-- Unknown
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Success is not the result of....
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.-- Reggie Leach
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Inspiration may be a form of....
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.-- Aaron Copland
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I believe that individuals can make....
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.-- The Dalai Lama
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It's very easy to feel someone's....
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.-- Salma Hayek
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Well, you're either lovers or you're....
Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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Death is a very dull, dreary....
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.-- W. Somerset Maugham
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield,....
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.-- Kahlil Gibran
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Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not....
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.-- Ed Norton
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I have found a desire within....
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.-- C. S. Lewis
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What greater grief than the loss....
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.-- Euripides
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Liberals are very broadminded: they are....
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.-- Anonymous
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Of all human ills, greatest is....
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.-- Sophocles
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I have always found that angels....
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.-- William Blake
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I am a friend of the....
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.-- Clarence Darrow
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The truth. It is a beautiful....
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.-- J. K. Rowling
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A myth is a religion in....
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.-- James Feibleman
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Action to be effective must be....
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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We must uphold the promise of....
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.-- John Kerry
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Learning to dislike children at an....
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.-- Robert Byrne
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I want freedom for the full....
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.-- Mahatma Gandhi
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Good leadership consists in showing average....
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.-- John D. Rockefeller
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There is death in the pot.--....
There is death in the pot.-- Bible
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We are students of words; we....
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never face facts; if you do,....
Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.-- Marlo Thomas
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We think very few people sensible,....
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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People need to be reminded more....
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.-- Samuel Johnson
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is....
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it's not about me. It's about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said
' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.-- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
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We have two ears and one....
We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.-- Epictetus
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All warfare is based on deception.....
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. -- Sun-Tzu
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A great many people think they....
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.-- William James
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Time is but a stream I....
Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.-- Henry David Thoreau
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Heirlooms we don't have in our....
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.-- Rose Cherin
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Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious,....
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.-- Mitch Albom
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A sense of humor is just....
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.-- Clive James
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The cry of equality pulls everyone....
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.-- Iris Murdoch
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Oats. A grain, which in England....
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.-- Samuel Johnson
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Public speaking is very easy.-- Dan....
Public speaking is very easy.-- Dan Quayle
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I've grown to realize the joy....
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.-- Lawana Blackwell
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Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.--....
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.-- William Hazlitt
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If you don't risk anything you....
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.-- Erica Jong
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IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my....
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.-- Ambrose Bierce
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I would rather be exposed to....
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-- Thomas Jefferson
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The glory of great men should....
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide:....
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.-- George Bernard Shaw
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We spend our years as a....
We spend our years as a tale that is told.-- Bible
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ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of....
ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.-- Ambrose Bierce
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What if no one's watching? What....
What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead we are just dead?-- Unknown (can you tell me?)
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Oh, my friend, it's not what....
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.-- Hubert H. Humphrey
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He who would travel happily must....
He who would travel happily must travel light. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If we aren't capable of being....
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.-- Madeleine L'Engle
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He loved humankind dearly and with....
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.-- David Guterson
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The agenda of the roadblock is....
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.-- George W. Bush
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The world makes you into a....
The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.-- Roseanne Barr
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Do not seek to follow in....
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. -- Matsuo Basho
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I am still determined to be....
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.-- Martha Washington
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Now I see the secret of....
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.-- Walt_Whitman/"
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The greatest paradox of them all....
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."-- Unknown (can you tell me?)
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Flying may not be all plain....
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.-- Amelia Earhart
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Just because your voice reaches halfway....
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.-- Edward R. Murrow
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Charm is a way of getting....
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.-- Albert Camus
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I was so naive as a....
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.-- Johnny Carson
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But did thee feel the earth....
But did thee feel the earth move?-- Ernest Hemingway
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Of course the game is rigged.....
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.-- Robert Heinlein
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Our imagination is the only limit....
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.-- Charles F. Kettering
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Be slow in choosing a friend,....
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. -- Benjamin Franklin
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For a list of all the....
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.-- Alice Kahn
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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow....
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.-- Ambrose Bierce
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He was a genius - that....
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.-- Robertson Davies
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God put me on this earth....
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.-- Bill Watterson
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Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for....
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.-- Woody Allen
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I can be expected to look....
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.-- Denis Diderot
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It is a kind of spiritual....
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.-- Albert Camus
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If men want to oppose war,....
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.-- Ayn Rand
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness....
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.-- Mother Teresa
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Begin at the beginning and go....
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.-- Lewis Carroll
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Laughter is not at all a....
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.-- Oscar Wilde
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers.....
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.-- C. S. Lewis
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Love is being stupid together.-- Paul....
Love is being stupid together.-- Paul Valery
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Gossip needs no carriage.-- Russian Proverb....
Gossip needs no carriage.-- Russian Proverb
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When desire, having rejected reason and....
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .-- Socrates
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They were so strong in their....
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.-- Louise Erdrich
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Like the wind crying endlessly through....
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.-- Harlan Ellison
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Health food makes me sick.-- Calvin....
Health food makes me sick.-- Calvin Trillin
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Things may come to those who....
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.-- Abraham Lincoln
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What we call our despair is....
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.-- George Eliot
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By learning to discover and value....
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.-- Thomas Moore
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Change is the law of life;....
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.-- John F. Kennedy
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He that can heroically endure adversity....
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.-- Henry Fielding
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In everyone's life, at some time,....
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.-- Albert Schweitzer
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an....
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.-- Ambrose Bierce
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The only way to get rid....
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.-- Oscar Wilde
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[Water is] the only drink for....
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.-- Henry David Thoreau
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by....
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.-- Arnold Toynbee
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No one forgives with more grace....
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.-- Real Live Preacher
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Management is doing things right; leadership....
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.-- Peter Drucker
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Doubt is part of all religion.....
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd....
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.-- Dorothy Parker
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The citizen who criticizes his country....
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.-- J. William Fulbright
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Science can be introduced to children....
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.-- Isaac Asimov
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Faith may be defined briefly as....
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.-- H. L. Mencken
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The great thing in this world....
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I am a Marxist--of the Groucho....
I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.-- Anonymous
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I can't understand why people are....
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.-- John Cage
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Before you contradict an old man,....
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.-- George Santayana
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What you do not want done....
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.-- Confucius
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It is necessary to work, if....
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.-- Charles Baudelaire
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It's a sure sign of summer....
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.-- Walter Winchell
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In great attempts it is glorious....
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.-- Vince Lombardi
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There cannot be a crisis next....
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.-- Henry Kissinger
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We can't take any credit for....
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.-- Madeleine L'Engle
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Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but....
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.-- Roseanne Barr
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of....
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.-- Oscar Wilde
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The crux... is that the vast....
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.-- William J. Broad
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Of men who have a sense....
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.-- Homer
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they....
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.-- Jean de La Fontaine
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Be of good cheer: it is....
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.-- Bible
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I first saw President Reagan as....
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.-- Peggy Noonan
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Do not speak of repulsive matters....
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.-- Amy Vanderbilt
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Viewed from the summit of reason,....
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We must make the world honest....
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.-- George Bernard Shaw
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Through faith man experiences the meaning....
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.-- Leo Braeck
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APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool....
APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.-- Ambrose Bierce
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MORE, adj. The comparative degree of....
MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.-- Ambrose Bierce
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