Famous Quotes from Inspirational People
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  The armour of falsehood is subtly....
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.-- E. M. Forster

 
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  First they came for the Communists....
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.-- Martin Niemoeller

 
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  I'd marry again if I found....
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.-- Bette Davis

 
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  Rhythm is something you either have....
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, and when you have it, you have it all over.-- Elvis Presley

 
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  All religions are founded on the....
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.  -- Marie Henri Beyle

 
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  The most silent people are generally....
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.-- William Hazlitt

 
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  There are three cures for ennui:....
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.-- D. H. Lawrence

 
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  The human brain starts working the....
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.-- George Jessel

 
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  Life is made up of sobs,....
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. -- O. Henry

 
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  The atom, being for all practical....
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.-- Unknown

 
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  Costly thy habit [dress] as thy....
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  People are difficult to govern because....
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.-- Lao-tzu

 
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  The quickest way of ending a....
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.-- George Orwell

 
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  The very idea of freedom presupposes....
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.-- C. S. Lewis

 
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  Electronic communication is an instantaneous and....
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.-- Clifford Stoll

 
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  [On recognizing China] But if you....
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  BILLINGSGATE, n. The invective of an....
BILLINGSGATE, n. The invective of an opponent.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Life is not a problem to....
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.-- Soren Kierkegaard

 
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  Cyberspace is - or can be....
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.-- Douglas Adams

 
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  Anger so clouds the mind, that....
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.-- Cato the Elder

 
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  In modern America, anyone who attempts....
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.-- Calvin Trillin

 
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  There are no wise few. Every....
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.-- G. K. Chesterton

 
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  To be a hero or a....
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.-- Simone Weil

 
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  Without the smile from partial beauty....
Without the smile from partial beauty won,-- Thomas_Campbell/"

 
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  The biggest thing [Frida] brought into....
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.-- Salma Hayek

 
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  Anybody who has listened to certain....
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.-- Stephen Leacock

 
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  The most important scientific revolutions all....
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.-- Stephen Jay Gould

 
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  There are nights when the wolves....
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.-- George Carlin

 
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  No man is a hypocrite in....
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.-- Samuel Johnson

 
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  One good thing about music, when....
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.-- Bob Marley

 
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  A conclusion is the place where....
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.-- Harold Fricklestein

 
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  Men cling passionately to old traditions....
Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress...-- V. Gordon Childe

 
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  If you are idle, be not....
If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.-- Samuel Johnson

 
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  Time is but the stream I....
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  You may have to fight a....
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.-- Margaret Thatcher

 
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  There will always be one who....
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.-- W. Somerset Maugham

 
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  No one means all he says,....
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.-- Henry Adams

 
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  We learn by example and by....
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.-- Malcolm Gladwell

 
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  A good plan violently executed right....
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.-- George S. Patton

 
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  Every man thinks God is on....
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.-- Jean Anouilh

 
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  This is part of the essence....
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.-- Heather Armstrong

 
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  Man is the measure of all....
Man is the measure of all things.-- Protagoras

 
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  [Poetry] is the lava of the....
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.-- Lord Byron

 
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  Noise is the most impertinent of....
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.-- Arthur Schopenhauer

 
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  When you have faults, do not....
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.-- Confucius

 
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  The dark today leads into light....
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; --

 
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  I know that my Redeemer liveth.--....
I know that my Redeemer liveth.-- Bible

 
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  HYDRA, n. A kind of animal....
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Three things are necessary for the....
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

 
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  We should be careful to get....
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.-- Mark Twain

 
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  For now we see through a....
For now we see through a glass, darkly.-- Bible

 
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  I've always wanted to own and....
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.-- Steve Jobs

 
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  If you knew what I know....
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.-- Buddha

 
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  Rem tene, verba sequntur-- Cato the....
Rem tene, verba sequntur-- Cato the Censor (?)

 
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  In a country as big as....
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.-- Jeffery F. Chamberlain

 
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  Better by far you should forget....
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.-- Christina Rossetti

 
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  For me, it's that I contributed,....
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.-- Ellen DeGeneres

 
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  If I knew what I was....
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.-- Mignon McLaughlin

 
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  The great thing is the start....
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.-- Robert Collier

 
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  The more I give myself permission....
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.-- Wayne Dyer

 
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  If I had my way, any....
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.-- H. L. Mencken

 
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  My mother loved children -- she....
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.-- Groucho Marx

 
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  There are two ways of spreading....
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-- Edith Wharton

 
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  I was born not knowing and....
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.-- Richard Feynman

 
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  There are no traffic jams when....
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.-- Anonymous

 
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  [Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom....
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.-- Mark Twain

 
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  Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like....
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.-- C. S. Lewis

 
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  Everyone is born with genius, but....
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.-- Edgard Varese

 
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  You don't get anything clean without....
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.-- Cecil Baxter

 
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  Some people have so much respect....
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.-- Peter McArthur

 
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  I am only one, but still....
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.-- Edward Everett Hale

 
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  I must create a system, or....
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.-- William Blake

 
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  Write 100 things that you love....
Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.-- Chris Pirillo

 
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  Thou shouldst eat to live; not....
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.-- Socrates

 
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  Age is…wisdom, if one has lived....
Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.-- Miriam Makeba

 
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  Of writing well the source and....
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.-- Horace

 
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  A quarrel is like buttermilk, the....
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows. -- Bolivian Proverb

 
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  It is better to be envied....
It is better to be envied than pitied.-- Herodotus

 
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  Make yourself an honest man, and....
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.-- Thomas Carlyle

 
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  RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in....
RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  The most important thing in life....
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.-- Andre Malraux

 
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  They that will not be counseled,....
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.-- Benjamin Franklin

 
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  The more I want to get....
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.-- Richard Bach

 
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  [Memory is] a man's real possession...In....
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.-- Alexander Smith

 
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  Laws are partly formed for the....
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.-- Plato

 
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  As soon as any man says....
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 
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  To laugh often and much; to....
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
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  HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting....
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.-- The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey.

 
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  O, my offence is rank, it....
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;--

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your....
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.-- Mahatma Gandhi

 
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  The world itself is the will....
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  You may encounter defeats, but you....
You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.-- Maya Angelou

 
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  REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which,....
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Be you in what line of....
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.-- William Cobbett

 
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  A straw vote only shows which....
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.-- O. Henry

 
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  No man should bring children into....
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.-- Plato

 
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  I never cease being dumbfounded by....
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe-- Leo Rosten

 
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  A cold in the head cause....
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.-- Jules Renard

 
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  There was a star danced, and....
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  It is easy to be brave....
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.-- Aesop

 
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  I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's....
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.-- New York City detective

 
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  Fighting fire with fire only gets....
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!-- Abigail van Buren

 
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  We have rudiments of reverence for....
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.-- Eric Hoffer

 
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  The universe is a big place,....
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.--

 
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  Sometimes people carry to such perfection....
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.-- W. Somerset Maugham

 
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  Decency...must be an even more exhausting....
Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.-- Quentin Crisp

 
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  [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That....
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.-- Terry Pratchett

 
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  By words the mind is winged.--....
By words the mind is winged.-- Aristophanes

 
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  If you can't answer a man's....
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.-- Elbert Hubbard

 
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  It is only the inferior thinker....
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.-- H. P. Lovecraft

 
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  Walking is the best possible exercise.....
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.-- Thomas Jefferson

 
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  Man's best possession is a sympathetic....
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.-- Euripides

 
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  If a man is destined to....
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.-- Yiddish Proverb

 
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  When I am abroad, I always....
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.-- Sir Winston Churchill

 
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  Patriotism is the virtue of the....
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.-- Oscar Wilde

 
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  I cannot tell what the dickens....
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  If you chase two rabbits, both....
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.-- Anonymous

 
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  PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all....
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting....
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.-- Sylvia Plath

 
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  It is in justice that the....
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.-- Aristotle

 
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  Faith: not *wanting* to know what....
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  The finest qualities of our nature,....
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  An honest man can feel no....
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.-- Thomas Jefferson

 
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  Brain: an apparatus with which we....
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  When I see somebody 'suffering for....
When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.-- Hugh Macleod

 
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  Thou shalt be both the plaintiff....
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  Do not think of knocking out....
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.-- Horace Mann

 
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  The body says what words cannot.--....
The body says what words cannot.-- Martha Graham

 
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  To be able under all circumstances....
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.-- Confucius

 
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  Sometimes I worry about being a....
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.-- Lily Tomlin

 
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  Real, constructive mental power lies in....
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.-- Laurence J. Peter

 
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  In stirring up tumult and strife,....
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.-- Cornelius Tacitus

 
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  Government is not reason; it is....
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.-- George Washington

 
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  All [zoos] actually offer to the....
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.-- H. L. Mencken

 
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  Isn't it true that you start....
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.-- Jack Kerouac

 
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  He who teaches children learns more....
He who teaches children learns more than they do.-- German Proverb

 
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  We all self-conscious. I'm just the....
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.-- Kanye West

 
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  Very little is known of the....
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.-- P. J. O'Rourke

 
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  The best way to keep children....
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.-- Dorothy Parker

 
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  Every year, back come Spring, with....
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.-- Dorothy Parker

 
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  The doctor of the future will....
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.-- Thomas A. Edison

 
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  Would that the Roman people had....
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].-- Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

 
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  There is no good or evil:....
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.-- J. K. Rowling

 
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  I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's....
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.-- New York City detective

 
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  I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice,....
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.-- Mary Montagu

 
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  If at first you don't succeed,....
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.-- Leo Rosten

 
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  Our problems are man-made, therefore they....
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.-- John F. Kennedy

 
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  Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful.....
Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.-- Neil Gaiman

 
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  If we fall, we don't need....
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.-- Sharon Salzberg

 
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  It is of interest to note....
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.-- Carl Sagan

 
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  Human beings are born into this....
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.-- William James

 
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  There is no greater joy nor....
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.-- Sister Mary Rose McGeady

 
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  All people want is someone to....
All people want is someone to listen.-- Hugh Elliott

 
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  Do not commit your poems to....
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.-- Virgil

 
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  Death is not the worst; rather,....
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain-- Sophocles/"

 
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  Mom always tells me to celebrate....
Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.-- Hilary Duff

 
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  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;--....
'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;--

 
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  Pleasure and love are the pinions....
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.-- Charles Fox

 
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  Fasting and natural diet, though essentially....
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.-- Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

 
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  Be neither too remote nor too....
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.-- Prince Charles

 
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  A good advertisement is one which....
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.-- David M. Ogilvy

 
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  A lady's imagination is very rapid;....
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.-- Jane Austen

 
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  The incognito of lower class employment....
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.--

 
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  [What is the definition of guts?]....
[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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  Mad, adj: Affected with a high....
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Having been an English literary graduate,....
Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.-- Douglas Adams

 
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  Nothing would disgust me more, morally,....
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.-- Luis Bunuel

 
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  No price is too high to....
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  Misquotations are the only quotations that....
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.-- Hesketh Pearson

 
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  I am in the prime of....
I am in the prime of senility.-- Benjamin Franklin

 
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  When armies are mobilized and issues....
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,-- Lao-tzu/"

 
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  You make 'em, I amuse 'em.....
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  The more alternatives, the more difficult....
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.-- Abbe' D'Allanival

 
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  He can compress the most words....
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.-- Abraham Lincoln

 
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  Household tasks are easier and quicker....
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.-- James Thorpe

 
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  The greatest revolution in our generation....
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.-- Marilyn Ferguson

 
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  ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally....
ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Speech is human, silence is divine,....
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.-- Thomas Carlyle

 
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  Liars when they speak the truth....
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.-- Aristotle

 
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  Love has nothing to do with....
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything-- Unknown

 
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  Politician talk themselves red, white, and....
Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.-- Clare Booth Luce

 
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  Children aren't happy with nothing to....
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, -- Ogden_Nash/"

 
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  How nice--to feel nothing, and still....
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.-- Kurt Vonnegut

 
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  You can't deny laughter; when it....
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.-- Stephen King

 
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  What breaks in a moment may....
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.-- Swedish proverb

 
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  We taste and feel and see....
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.-- William Butler Yeats

 
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  How do you define God? Like....
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.-- Robert J. Sawyer

 
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  Do give books - religious or....
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.-- Lenore Hershey

 
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  ROBBER, n. A candid man of....
ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.-- Ambrose_Bierce/"

 
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  [Common sense] is the best sense....
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.-- Lord Chesterfield

 
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  A critic is a gong at....
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.-- Christopher Morley

 
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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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  Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every....
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.-- Henry Ward Beecher

 
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  Beauty as we feel it is....
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.-- George Santayana

 
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  Be not afraid of greatness: some....
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country....
ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in Heaven!-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues....
HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Unless I am convinced by proofs....
Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.-- Martin Luther

 
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  That consciousness is everything and that....
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.-- Madonna

 
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  I must study politics and war....
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.-- John Adams

 
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  While we stop to think, we....
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.-- Publilius Syrus

 
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  If there is any religion that....
If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.-- Albert Einstein

 
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  All marriages are happy. It's trying....
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.-- Shelley Winters

 
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  Do you know, my son, with....
Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?-- Pope Julius III

 
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  ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary....
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Every contrivance of man, every tool,....
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.-- Robert Collier

 
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  Memory says, I did that. Pride....
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  O death, where is thy sting?....
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?-- Bible

 
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  He had heard people speak contemptuously....
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.-- W. Somerset Maugham

 
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  What a good thing Adam had.....
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.-- Mark Twain

 
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  While you are not able to....
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?-- Confucius

 
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  When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly....
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.-- Margery Allingham

 
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  Laughter gives us distance. It allows....
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.-- Bob Newhart

 
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  If you are not a psychiatrist,....
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.-- Stanislaw J. Lec

 
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  He who fights too long against....
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  From this day forward until the....
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  This is the true joy in....
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my *privilege* to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.-- George Bernard Shaw

 
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  He who despises himself esteems himself....
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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  Make no little plans; they have....
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work.-- Daniel H. Burnham

 
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  Mistrust the man who finds everything....
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.-- Johann K. Lavater

 
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  In soft regions are born soft....
In soft regions are born soft men.-- Herodotus

 
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  Courage atrophies from lack of use.--....
Courage atrophies from lack of use.-- Unknown

 
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  Remember what is unbecoming to do....
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.-- Socrates

 
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  Good laws have their origins in....
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.-- Ambrosius Macrobius

 
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  America has been discovered before, but....
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.-- Oscar Wilde

 
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  Don't limit a child to your....
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.-- Rabbinical Saying

 
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  If the fans don't wanna come....
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.-- Yogi Berra

 
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  The number of guests at dinner....
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.-- Marcus Terentius Varro

 
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  When I have a kid, I....
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.-- Steven Wright

 
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  The more you know, the less....
The more you know, the less you need to show.-- Anonymous

 
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  To have doubted one's own first....
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

 
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  It was a book to kill....
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.-- Dame Rose Macaulay

 
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  We seem to have a compulsion....
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.-- Alfred Hitchcock

 
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  ENOUGH, pro. All there is in....
ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it. --

 
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  You raise your voice when you....
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.-- Samuel Johnson

 
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  The right to vote is a....
The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.-- Ayn Rand

 
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  [When asked what was the proper....
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.-- Diogenes the Cynic

 
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  Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday....
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.-- Douglas Adams

 
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  We never live; we are always....
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.-- Voltaire

 
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  Try as hard as we may....
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.-- Samuel McChord Crothers

 
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  But all art is sensual and....
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.-- William Carlos Williams

 
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  all of us tend to put....
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.-- Dale Carnegie

 
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  Why can't they invent something for....
Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN?-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Time cancels young pain.-- Euripides ....
Time cancels young pain.-- Euripides

 
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  We shall find peace. We shall....
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.-- Anton Chekhov

 
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  I don't do this for my....
I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I *LOVE* the pain!-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Equal participants doing similar things will....
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.-- Tom McMakin

 
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  Things are seldom what they seem,....
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.-- W. S. Gilbert

 
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  Law is order in liberty, and....
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.-- Archbishop Ireland

 
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  While hunting in Africa, I shot....
While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.-- Groucho Marx

 
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  Would that the Roman people had....
Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].-- Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

 
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  Neither a borrower nor a lender....
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].-- William Shakespeare

 
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  Laws are spider webs through which....
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.-- Honore de Balzac

 
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  Finishing a book is just like....
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.-- Truman Capote

 
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  A single day is enough to....
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.-- Paul Klee

 
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  Politeness and consideration for others is....
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.-- Thomas Sowell

 
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  Every government is a parliament of....
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.-- P. J. O'Rourke

 
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  If men menstruated, they would brag....
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.-- Gloria Steinem

 
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  If a man takes no thought....
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.-- Confucius

 
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  Nature and Nature's laws lay hid....
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:-- B. A. Behrend

 
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  LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable....
LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  Character is much easier kept than....
Character is much easier kept than recovered.-- Thomas Paine

 
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  Ye blind guides! which strain at....
Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.-- Bible

 
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  We improve ourselves by victories over....
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.-- Edward Gibbon

 
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  Can the Ethiopian change his skin,....
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?-- Bible

 
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  Anyone who has gumption knows what....
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.-- L. M. Montgomery

 
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  If men were born free, they....
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.-- Baruch Spinoza

 
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  Bravery never goes out of fashion.--....
Bravery never goes out of fashion.-- William Makepeace Thackeray

 
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  The body is an instrument, the....
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.-- George Santayana

 
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  Without geography you're nowhere.-- Jimmy Buffett....
Without geography you're nowhere.-- Jimmy Buffett

 
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  At my time of life opinions....
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.-- Jane Austen

 
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  Associate yourself with men of good....
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.-- George Washington

 
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  Never trust anything that can think....
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.-- J. K. Rowling

 
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  A man ought to be able....
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.-- George Bernard Shaw

 
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  Most people assume the fights are....
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.-- Jimmy Wales

 
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  Cogito ergo spud. - I think,....
Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam-- Graffito

 
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  Be gentle to all and stern....
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.-- Saint Teresa of Avila

 
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  Half of the American people never....
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.-- Gore Vidal

 
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  If it turns out that there....
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.-- Woody Allen

 
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  Think only of the past as....
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.-- Jane Austen

 
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  Whenever a separation is made between....
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.-- Edmund Burke

 
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  ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern....
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  New knowledge is the most valuable....
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.-- Kurt Vonnegut

 
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  From their experience or from the....
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.-- Aldous Huxley

 
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  I have lived some thirty years....
I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  The most exhausting thing you can....
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 
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  The defects and faults in the....
The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 
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  Things won are done; joy's soul....
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.-- William Shakespeare

 
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  The chief lesson I have learned....
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.-- Henry L. Stimson

 
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  Love is a perky elf dancing....
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.-- Matt Groening

 
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  HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or....
HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.-- Can we exist on t'other nine?"

 
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  To revive sorrow is cruel.-- Sophocles....
To revive sorrow is cruel.-- Sophocles

 
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  Self-trust is the essence of heroism--....
Self-trust is the essence of heroism-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
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  You need not leave your room.....
You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.-- Franz Kafka

 
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  Saul and Jonathan were lovely and....
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.-- Bible

 
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  Never confuse movement with action.-- Ernest....
Never confuse movement with action.-- Ernest Hemingway

 
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  Every once in a while, take....
Every once in a while, take the scenic route. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 
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  I hate television. I hate it....
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.-- Orson Welles

 
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  There is no expedient to which....
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.-- Thomas A. Edison

 
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  Seek ye first the good things....
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.-- Sir Francis Bacon

 
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  If one sticks too rigidly to....
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.-- Agatha Christie

 
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  Crime does not pay ... as....
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.-- Alfred E. Newman

 
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  To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a....
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.-- e e cummings

 
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  There's no reason to bring religion....
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.-- Sean O'Casey

 
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  An Englishman is a person who....
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.-- Mark Twain

 
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  They are a bunch of bastards....
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]-- Unknown (can you tell me?)

 
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  Take time to deliberate, but when....
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.-- Napoleon Bonaparte

 
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  A man who has committed a....
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.-- Confucius

 
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  One, a robot may not injure....
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;-- Isaac_Asimov/"

 
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  In a republic the first rule....
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.-- Calvin Coolidge

 
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  God heals, and the doctor takes....
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.-- Benjamin Franklin

 
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  POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the....
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.-- Ambrose Bierce

 
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  The family is one of nature's....
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.-- George Santayana

 
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  Sure i'm for helping the elderly.....
Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.-- Lillian Carter

 
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  We are all human, and caring....
We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.-- Kathy Sierra

 
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  EXILE, n. One who serves his....
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.--

 
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  There is nothing more difficult to....
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.-- Niccolo Machiavelli

 
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  Two roads diverged in a wood,....
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I----

 
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  Don't look back: Something may be....
Don't look back: Something may be gaining on you.-- Satchel Paige

 
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  Make money, money, honestly if you....
Make money, money, honestly if you can;-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

 
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  Faith, as well intentioned as it....
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.-- Thomas A. Edison

 
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  Of all the creatures that were....
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.-- Mark Twain

 
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  Believe in yourself! Have faith in....
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy-- Norman Vincent Peale

 
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  A man is rich in proportion....
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.-- Henry David Thoreau

 
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  Deus ex machina [A god from....
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]-- Menander

 
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  You can judge the character of....
You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.-- Malcolm Forbes

 
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  God is not on the side....
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.-- George W. Bush

 
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  Decide what you want, decide what....
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.-- H. L. Hunt

 
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  Our wisdom comes from our experience,....
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.-- Sacha Guitry

 
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  Ridicule is the first and last....
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.-- Charles Simmons

 
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  Big shots are only little shots....
Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.-- Dale Carnegie

 
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  Character can not be developed in....
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.-- Helen Keller

 
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  No man is happy without a....
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.-- Christian Nestell Bovee

 
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  In theory, there is no difference....
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.-- Chuck Reid

 
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  Of all the properties which belong....
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.-- Henry Clay

 
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  If you can find something everyone....
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.-- Mo Udall

 
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  To try to be better is....
To try to be better is to be better.-- Charlotte Cushman

 
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  There are more of them than....
There are more of them than us.-- Herb Caen

 
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  Every gun that is made, every....
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 
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  I bet you if I had....
I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.-- Will Rogers

 
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  All excess is ill, but drunkenness....
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.-- William Penn

 
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  When I am asked, "What do....
When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."-- Arthur Schnabel

 
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  Remember the generational battles twenty years....
Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.-- P. J. O'Rourke

 
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