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A. Bronson Alcott
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. |
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A. J. Toynbee
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility [read rest of quote] |
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A. Poincelot
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Good taste is the flower of good sense. |
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A. Whitney Brown
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. |
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Abba Eban
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He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150? |
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Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and e [read rest of quote] |
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Abigail Adams
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. |
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Abraham Harold Maslow
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Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought [read rest of quote] |
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Abraham Lincoln
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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Whatever you are, be a good one. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
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Abraham Lincoln
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. |
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Bertrand Russell
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is [read rest of quote] |
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California Civil Code
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That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done. |
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California Civil Code
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Superfluity does not vitiate. |
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Dante Alighieri
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their [read rest of quote] |
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David Darlington
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In the mirror like relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective prope [read rest of quote] |
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Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. |
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Helen Keller
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. |
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Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wi [read rest of quote] |
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Izaak Walton
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. |
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Kahlil Gibran
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They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a [read rest of quote] |
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Kahlil Gibran
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul [read rest of quote] |
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Kahlil Gibran
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You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly gi [read rest of quote] |
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Kahlil Gibran
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what [read rest of quote] |
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Kahlil Gibran
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re [read rest of quote] |
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L. B. Walton
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Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original [read rest of quote] |
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L. P. Hartley
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. |
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L. Ron Hubbard
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The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. |
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Lord Essex
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Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. |
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M. C. Escher
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order. |
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M. C. Escher
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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. |
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M. C. Escher
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observation [read rest of quote] |
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M. C. Escher
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Originality is merely an illusion. |
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Margaret Millar
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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. |
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Mark Twain
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. |
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Mark Twain
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but [read rest of quote] |
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N. W. Dougherty
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The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a [read rest of quote] |
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Og Mandino
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st [read rest of quote] |
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Ogden Nash
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The Pig, if I am not mistaken, supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, [read rest of quote] |
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Ogden Nash
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. |
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Ogden Nash
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When there are monsters there are miracles. |
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Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. |
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P. E. Morris
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You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning. |
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P. G. Wodehouse
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. |
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P. L. Berger
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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. |
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Pablo Picasso
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Art is a lie that tells the truth. |
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Peter Stack
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My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked. |
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Quentin Crisp
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. |
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Quentin Crisp
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast [read rest of quote] |
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Quida
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. |
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Quintilian
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. |
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Quintilian
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. |
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Quintilian
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That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, sh [read rest of quote] |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I [read rest of quote] |
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S. Weinstein
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The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal. |
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Samuel Johnson
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. |
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Seneca
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe. |
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Sir Francis Bacon
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom |
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Swedish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more
Whine less, breathe more
Talk less, say more
Hate less, love more
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T. E. Lawrence
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i [read rest of quote] |
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T. S Eliot
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star [read rest of quote] |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. |
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Thomas Guthrie
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Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. |
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Thomas Higginson
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in th [read rest of quote] |
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Tyron Edwards
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio [read rest of quote] |
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Unknown
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. |
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Unknown
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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. |
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V. S. Pritchett
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The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are long lasting and not of this world. |
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Vulgate
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Great is truth, and all powerful. |
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W. Clement Stone
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. |
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Wilfrid Sheed
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom fro [read rest of quote] |
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Woody Allen
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopele [read rest of quote] |
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Woody Allen
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and d [read rest of quote] |