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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
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She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
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The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
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I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
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John Mason Brown (2)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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William C. Bryant (5)
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
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Georg Buchner (6)
I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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Edmund Burke (37)
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
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Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
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Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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I am but an architectural composer.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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Honore de Balzac (53)
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (2)
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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Charles de Gaulle (19)
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (90)
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Alphonse de Lamartine (8)
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Charles de Montesquieu (14)
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Alfred de Musset (3)
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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Marquis de Sade (12)
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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Charles de Secondat (10)
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Madame de Stael (3)
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (2)
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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Alexis de Tocqueville (19)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Miguel de Unamuno (12)
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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Lope de Vega (2)
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
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Alfred de Vigny (2)
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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Edgar Degas (3)
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
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Rene Descartes (11)
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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John Dewey (9)
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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Walt Disney (23)
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Benjamin Disraeli (75)
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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John Donne (10)
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (10)
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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William O. Douglas (6)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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Norman Douglas (6)
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (14)
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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Theodore Dreiser (3)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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John Drinkwater (5)
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Henry Drummond (4)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
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John Dryden (17)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Patrick Duffy (2)
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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Georges Duhamel (2)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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John Foster Dulles (2)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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Alexandre Dumas (4)
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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Will Durant (25)
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Jimmy Durante (2)
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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Albrecht Durer (4)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt (17)
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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James Dyson (22)
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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Charles Eames (5)
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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Max Eastman (7)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Charles Eastman (5)
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
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Meister Eckhart (11)
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
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Mary Baker Eddy (8)
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
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Thomas A. Edison (23)
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Charles Edison (2)
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
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Jonathan Edwards (3)
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Albert Einstein (105)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (33)
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (2)
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.
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T. S. Eliot (23)
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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George Eliot (52)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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Duke Ellington (6)
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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Jim Elliot (5)
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
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Havelock Ellis (16)
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Evan Esar (6)
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Richard L. Evans (3)
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
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Edward Everett (2)
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Medgar Evers (2)
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
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Clifton Paul Fadiman (3)
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
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Cyril Falls (2)
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
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Michael Faraday (2)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
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William Feather (22)
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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Federico Fellini (4)
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Francois Fenelon (3)
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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Edna Ferber (5)
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Alex Ferguson (2)
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
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Richard P. Feynman (3)
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Sarah Fielding (2)
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
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W. C. Fields (24)
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Harvey S. Firestone (6)
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
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M. F. K. Fisher (2)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Robert Fitzgerald (2)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (14)
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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Gustave Flaubert (30)
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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B. C. Forbes (10)
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Malcolm Forbes (12)
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Henry Ford (32)
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (2)
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (6)
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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Michel Foucault (2)
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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Gene Fowler (2)
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
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A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
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This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
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Martha Graham (5)
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
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Antonio Gramsci (2)
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
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Graham Greene (11)
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Alex Haley (3)
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
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Joseph Hall (2)
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Dag Hammarskjold (13)
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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Tony Hancock (2)
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
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Lorraine Hansberry (3)
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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Warren G. Harding (2)
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
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Sydney J. Harris (13)
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
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Thomas Harrison (2)
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
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Bret Harte (2)
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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John Hawkes (2)
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Rutherford B. Hayes (6)
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
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William Hazlitt (38)
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (9)
Education is the art of making man ethical.
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Martin Heidegger (6)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Gustav Heinemann (6)
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
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Robert A. Heinlein (14)
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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Werner Heisenberg (2)
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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Joseph Heller (2)
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Ernest Hemingway (35)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Arthur Henderson (4)
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
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Jimi Hendrix (22)
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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O. Henry (6)
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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Jim Henson (4)
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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Frank Herbert (8)
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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A. P. Herbert (2)
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Don Herold (3)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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James Herriot (4)
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (4)
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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John Heywood (2)
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
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Gilbert Highet (2)
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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Patricia Highsmith (5)
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Napoleon Hill (28)
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Paul Hindemith (2)
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
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Alfred Hitchcock (9)
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Thomas Hobbes (8)
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Eric Hoffer (31)
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Abbie Hoffman (3)
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Ben Hogan (4)
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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Billie Holiday (5)
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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Buddy Holly (2)
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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Ernest Holmes (8)
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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Thomas Hood (2)
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
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Sidney Hook (3)
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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Herbert Hoover (20)
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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Anthony Hope (2)
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Edward Hopper (8)
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Rogers Hornsby (2)
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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Douglas Horton (16)
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
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Alan Hovhaness (2)
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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Vernon Howard (8)
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Irving Howe (2)
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
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E. W. Howe (23)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Julia Ward Howe (3)
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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William Dean Howells (3)
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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Kin Hubbard (27)
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Elbert Hubbard (59)
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Langston Hughes (7)
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Charles Evans Hughes (4)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
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Victor Hugo (73)
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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Johan Huizinga (3)
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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David Hume (16)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (16)
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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George M. Humphrey (2)
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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Ellsworth Huntington (2)
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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Zora Neale Hurston (12)
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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Francis Hutcheson (2)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
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Aldous Huxley (45)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Thomas Huxley (33)
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Solomon Ibn Gabirol (3)
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
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Henrik Ibsen (11)
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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William Ralph Inge (10)
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Jean Ingelow (4)
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
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Muhammad Iqbal (14)
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Washington Irving (18)
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Helen Hunt Jackson (6)
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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Mahalia Jackson (13)
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Max Jacob (2)
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (3)
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Arne Jacobsen (4)
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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William James (40)
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Alice James (2)
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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Henry James (10)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Storm Jameson (2)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Randall Jarrell (2)
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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Alfred Jarry (3)
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
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Robinson Jeffers (2)
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
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Thomas Jefferson (70)
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Gertrude Jekyll (3)
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
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Jerome K. Jerome (7)
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
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Douglas William Jerrold (5)
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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John Jewel (2)
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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Pope John XXIII (9)
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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Samuel Johnson (63)
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Andrew Johnson (2)
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
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William Samuel Johnson (4)
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (24)
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
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John Paul Jones (3)
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
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E. Stanley Jones (5)
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Janis Joplin (5)
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.
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David Starr Jordan (2)
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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Barbara Jordan (6)
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Joseph Joubert (14)
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
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James Joyce (11)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Carl Jung (19)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Franz Kafka (12)
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Meir Kahane (4)
The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.
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Frida Kahlo (5)
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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Louis Kahn (3)
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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Henry J. Kaiser (3)
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
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Immanuel Kant (13)
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Herbert Kaufman (3)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Danny Kaye (3)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
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Nikos Kazantzakis (7)
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
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John Keats (19)
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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Arthur Keith (2)
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
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Helen Keller (31)
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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DeForest Kelley (2)
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
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Frank B. Kellogg (3)
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
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Thomas a Kempis (12)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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John F. Kennedy (46)
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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Edward Kennedy (3)
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
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Corita Kent (2)
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
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Jack Kerouac (6)
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Charles Kettering (11)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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Black Kettle (3)
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
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Ellen Key (4)
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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John Maynard Keynes (10)
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Nikita Khrushchev (5)
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
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Soren Kierkegaard (22)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Coretta Scott King (4)
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (41)
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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Richard King (5)
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
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Charles Kingsley (6)
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Rudyard Kipling (12)
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Paul Klee (3)
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.
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Frank Knox (2)
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
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Arthur Koestler (4)
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti (9)
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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Ray Kroc (5)
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
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Louis Kronenberger (3)
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Joseph Wood Krutch (7)
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Charles Kuralt (8)
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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Lactantius (2)
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
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Imre Lakatos (2)
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Hedy Lamarr (14)
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Charles Lamb (10)
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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Corliss Lamont (2)
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
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Joseph Lancaster (2)
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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Michael Landon (5)
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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Walter Savage Landor (9)
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Tom Landry (3)
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
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Walter Lang (2)
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
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Lillie Langtry (6)
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
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Ring Lardner (3)
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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Christopher Lasch (20)
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette (2)
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater (6)
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Stephen Leacock (8)
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
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Bruce Lee (11)
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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Robert E. Lee (11)
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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Vivien Leigh (5)
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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Vladimir Lenin (14)
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Aldo Leopold (4)
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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Max Lerner (5)
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (3)
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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Sam Levenson (3)
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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George Henry Lewes (9)
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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Joe E. Lewis (5)
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
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C. S. Lewis (25)
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Sinclair Lewis (6)
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Karl Liebknecht (4)
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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A. J. Liebling (4)
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (7)
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
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Abraham Lincoln (47)
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Charles Lindbergh (6)
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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Walter Lippmann (8)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Franz Liszt (4)
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
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David Livingstone (3)
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
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John Locke (15)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Henry Cabot Lodge (3)
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
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Jack London (2)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (26)
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (3)
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
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Adolf Loos (4)
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Audre Lorde (9)
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
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Konrad Lorenz (2)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik (2)
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
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Christopher Love (2)
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
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H. P. Lovecraft (6)
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
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Juliette Gordon Low (2)
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
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James Russell Lowell (24)
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Amy Lowell (5)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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Rosa Luxemburg (4)
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
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Robert Staughton Lynd (5)
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
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Robert Wilson Lynd (2)
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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Paul Lynde (8)
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
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Norman MacCaig (6)
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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George MacDonald (12)
Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Ernst Mach (2)
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
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Niccolo Machiavelli (23)
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Harold MacMillan (6)
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Agnes Macphail (2)
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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James Madison (27)
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Maurice Maeterlinck (10)
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Gustav Mahler (4)
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
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Ella Maillart (6)
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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Maimonides (3)
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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Malcolm X (21)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Andre Malraux (3)
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Thomas Malthus (4)
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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Maxwell Maltz (4)
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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Og Mandino (10)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Horace Mann (11)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Thomas Mann (11)
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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Marya Mannes (5)
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
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Katherine Mansfield (3)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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Robert Mapplethorpe (10)
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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Gabriel Marcel (2)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Jacques Maritain (4)
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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Don Marquis (18)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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George C. Marshall (4)
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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Alfred Marshall (2)
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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Thurgood Marshall (2)
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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Jose Marti (7)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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Mary Martin (2)
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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Walter Martin (2)
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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Dean Martin (3)
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
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James Martineau (2)
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Karl Marx (21)
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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John Masefield (2)
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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Abraham Maslow (7)
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Henri Matisse (7)
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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W. Somerset Maugham (29)
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Andre Maurois (14)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Rollo May (6)
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Jonathan Mayhew (2)
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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Mary McCarthy (4)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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Linda McCartney (2)
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
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Phyllis McGinley (6)
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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David O. McKay (3)
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
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William McKinley (2)
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
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John McKinley (2)
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
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Norman McLaren (2)
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
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Mignon McLaughlin (21)
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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Marshall McLuhan (19)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Peter McWilliams (4)
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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Margaret Mead (18)
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Golda Meir (14)
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Harry Melling (2)
I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
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Bernard Meltzer (6)
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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Herman Melville (13)
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Karl A. Menninger (3)
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Freddie Mercury (6)
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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George Meredith (4)
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Ethel Merman (9)
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
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Thomas Merton (12)
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Alice Meynell (3)
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
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Michelangelo (16)
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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James A. Michener (4)
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
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John Stuart Mill (11)
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Merton Miller (5)
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
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Henry Miller (23)
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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C. Wright Mills (2)
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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A. A. Milne (5)
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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John Milton (5)
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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Ho Chi Minh (3)
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
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Maria Mitchell (8)
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
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Margaret Mitchell (4)
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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Addison Mizner (3)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
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Moliere (15)
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Claude Monet (5)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Marilyn Monroe (53)
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
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Ashley Montagu (6)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Eugenio Montale (6)
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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Maria Montessori (5)
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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James Montgomery (2)
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (2)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Dwight L. Moody (8)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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Thomas Moore (7)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Henry Moore (2)
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Thomas More (5)
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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J. P. Morgan (2)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Charles Morgan (2)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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Julia Morgan (2)
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
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Christopher Morley (15)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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William Morris (6)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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Jim Morrison (14)
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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Grandma Moses (2)
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
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Robert Motherwell (2)
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2)
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
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Malcolm Muggeridge (8)
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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John Muir (13)
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
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Max Muller (3)
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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Ethel Watts Mumford (3)
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
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Lewis Mumford (8)
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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Edvard Munch (7)
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Timothy Murphy (2)
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
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George Murray (4)
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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Edward R. Murrow (3)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Vladimir Nabokov (9)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Nagarjuna (2)
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Ogden Nash (14)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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George Jean Nathan (12)
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Daniel Nathans (2)
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
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Anna Neagle (2)
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (11)
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Simon Newcomb (2)
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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Huey Newton (6)
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (15)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (103)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Earl Nightingale (6)
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Florence Nightingale (4)
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Anais Nin (21)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Kwame Nkrumah (2)
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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Alfred Nobel (2)
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Frank Norris (2)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Henri Nouwen (2)
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
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David Ogilvy (11)
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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Charles Olson (3)
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
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Aristotle Onassis (6)
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
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George Orwell (47)
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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William Osler (11)
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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James Otis (3)
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
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Ouida (2)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Wilfred Owen (2)
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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Jesse Owens (2)
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Satchel Paige (9)
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
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Thomas Paine (31)
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Olof Palme (2)
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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George Papandreou (3)
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
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Paracelsus (4)
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Gilbert Parker (4)
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst (4)
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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C. Northcote Parkinson (4)
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Blaise Pascal (57)
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Boris Pasternak (3)
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Louis Pasteur (4)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
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Walter Pater (3)
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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George S. Patton (20)
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
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Pope Paul VI (7)
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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Cesare Pavese (5)
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Ivan Pavlov (2)
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
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Anna Pavlova (5)
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
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James Payn (2)
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
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Octavio Paz (5)
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Norman Vincent Peale (11)
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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Lester B. Pearson (5)
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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William Penn (15)
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Samuel Pepys (4)
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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S. J. Perelman (2)
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Laurence J. Peter (21)
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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Roger Tory Peterson (3)
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
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William Lyon Phelps (6)
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Jean Piaget (4)
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
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Francis Picabia (3)
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
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Mary Pickford (3)
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Kenneth L. Pike (4)
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
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Albert Pike (5)
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Zebulon Pike (3)
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
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Luigi Pirandello (3)
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
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Camille Pissarro (2)
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Max Planck (2)
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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Pliny the Elder (5)
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Edgar Allan Poe (19)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Henri Poincare (5)
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Michael Polanyi (2)
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
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James K. Polk (3)
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
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William Pollard (2)
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
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Channing Pollock (4)
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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Karl Popper (6)
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Antonio Porchia (4)
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Emily Post (2)
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
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Dennis Potter (5)
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
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Ezra Pound (8)
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Steve Prefontaine (3)
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
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Munshi Premchand (3)
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
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Elvis Presley (19)
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
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Jacques Prevert (2)
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
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J. B. Priestley (9)
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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Matthew Prior (2)
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
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Marcel Proust (18)
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Manuel Puig (11)
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Mario Puzo (3)
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Francis Quarles (6)
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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Salvatore Quasimodo (2)
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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Robert Quillen (2)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
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Quintilian (12)
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Francois Rabelais (13)
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
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Jean Racine (5)
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Gilda Radner (4)
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
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Ramakrishna (10)
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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Ayn Rand (24)
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Man Ray (2)
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Herbert Read (7)
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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Oliver Reed (5)
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Henry Reed (4)
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
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Wilhelm Reich (2)
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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Thomas Reid (3)
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Ernest Renan (2)
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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Jules Renard (6)
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Mary Renault (2)
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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Agnes Repplier (5)
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Samuel Richardson (22)
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Laura Riding (2)
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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James Whitcomb Riley (2)
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (9)
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart (2)
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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Jane Roberts (3)
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
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Frederick William Robertson (4)
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
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Paul Robeson (4)
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
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Jackie Robinson (2)
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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John Buchanan Robinson (3)
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
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John D. Rockefeller (10)
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Nelson Rockefeller (2)
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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Knute Rockne (5)
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Auguste Rodin (4)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Carl Rogers (4)
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Roy Rogers (3)
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
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Will Rogers (57)
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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Romain Rolland (3)
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
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Erwin Rommel (2)
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (24)
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (30)
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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Theodore Roosevelt (36)
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Leo Rosten (6)
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Arnold Rothstein (2)
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
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Helen Rowland (23)
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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Mike Royko (2)
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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Helena Rubinstein (2)
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
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Arthur Rubinstein (2)
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
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John Ruskin (45)
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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Dora Russell (2)
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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Bertrand Russell (45)
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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Babe Ruth (6)
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Joseph Franklin Rutherford (2)
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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Saadi (4)
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Anwar Sadat (5)
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
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Carl Sagan (9)
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Jonas Salk (4)
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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George Sand (9)
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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Carl Sandburg (24)
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Margaret Sanger (2)
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
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George Santayana (46)
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Edward Sapir (2)
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
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David Sarnoff (3)
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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Virginia Satir (2)
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
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Fritz Sauckel (4)
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
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George Savile (2)
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
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Jessica Savitch (14)
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (3)
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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Oskar Schindler (2)
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Arthur Schopenhauer (29)
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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Olive Schreiner (2)
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Franz Schubert (5)
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
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Charles M. Schulz (9)
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
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E. F. Schumacher (2)
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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Clara Schumann (2)
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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Robert Schumann (2)
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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James Schuyler (2)
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
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Delmore Schwartz (2)
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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Albert Schweitzer (15)
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Walter Scott (15)
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Robert Falcon Scott (3)
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
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David Seabury (2)
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
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Andres Segovia (2)
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
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Hans Selye (2)
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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David O. Selznick (2)
I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
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Robert W. Service (2)
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
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Dr. Seuss (8)
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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Eric Sevareid (2)
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
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Jane Seymour (8)
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
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William Shakespeare (81)
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Bill Shankly (3)
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Karl Shapiro (2)
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Robert Shea (3)
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
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George A. Sheehan (3)
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
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Fulton J. Sheen (3)
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (19)
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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William Shenstone (8)
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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Alan Shepard (2)
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (3)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (20)
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Florence Scovel Shinn (2)
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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David M. Shoup (2)
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
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Philip Sidney (2)
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Shel Silverstein (2)
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
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Georges Simenon (2)
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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Georg Simmel (3)
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
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Charles Simmons (3)
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
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Matthew Simpson (4)
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (10)
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Douglas Sirk (2)
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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Edith Sitwell (2)
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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Swami Sivananda (7)
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Red Skelton (5)
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
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B. F. Skinner (7)
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Joe Slovo (2)
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
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Samuel Smiles (7)
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Sydney Smith (7)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Alexander Smith (6)
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Kate Smith (7)
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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Lillian Smith (3)
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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Frederick Smith (2)
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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George A. Smith (3)
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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Robert Smithson (3)
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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Georg Solti (2)
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
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John Philip Sousa (3)
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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Robert Southey (3)
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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Catherine Helen Spence (2)
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
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Herbert Spencer (20)
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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Baruch Spinoza (18)
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Benjamin Spock (6)
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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Joseph Stalin (11)
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Constantin Stanislavski (3)
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
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Freya Stark (2)
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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Wallace Stegner (2)
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Edward Steichen (3)
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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John Steinbeck (9)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Stendhal (14)
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Casey Stengel (12)
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Laurence Sterne (14)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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Wallace Stevens (16)
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Adlai E. Stevenson (24)
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (39)
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Adlai Stevenson (3)
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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Ezra Stiles (2)
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (7)
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Igor Stravinsky (5)
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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August Strindberg (3)
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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Anne Sullivan (2)
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
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Louis Sullivan (2)
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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Billy Sunday (10)
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Shinichi Suzuki (4)
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
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Gloria Swanson (7)
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
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Jonathan Swift (19)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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John Millington Synge (3)
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
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William Howard Taft (4)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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Oliver Tambo (2)
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Junichiro Tanizaki (2)
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
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Torquato Tasso (4)
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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Allen Tate (3)
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
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A. J. P. Taylor (2)
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Jeremy Taylor (8)
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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Edwin Way Teale (3)
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
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William Temple (6)
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
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Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (8)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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U Thant (3)
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Lewis Thomas (3)
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
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Dylan Thomas (3)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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Dorothy Thompson (3)
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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Henry David Thoreau (117)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Edward Thorndike (4)
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
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James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Gene Tierney (12)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Michael Tippett (3)
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
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Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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Swami Vivekananda (9)
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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Voltaire (78)
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Otto von Bismarck (16)
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Ludwig von Mises (10)
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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George Wald (2)
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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Charles Dudley Warner (5)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Robert Penn Warren (2)
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
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Alan Watts (16)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
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John Webster (3)
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Richard Whately (5)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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Benjamin Whichcote (2)
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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E. B. White (19)
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Theodore White (5)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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William Allen White (3)
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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Ellen G. White (3)
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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George Whitefield (5)
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
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Alfred North Whitehead (19)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Walt Whitman (30)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (7)
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (6)
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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Oscar Wilde (100)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (2)
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Thornton Wilder (12)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Tennessee Williams (17)
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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William John Wills (2)
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
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Edmund Wilson (2)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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Samuel Wilson (3)
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
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Harold Wilson (3)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Woodrow Wilson (19)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Tom Wilson (5)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Walter Winchell (3)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (9)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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P. G. Wodehouse (3)
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (6)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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Natalie Wood (4)
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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George Edward Woodberry (2)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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Victoria Woodhull (3)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Carter G. Woodson (6)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
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Virginia Woolf (30)
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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William Wordsworth (21)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (26)
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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Wilbur Wright (2)
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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Frances Wright (5)
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Orville Wright (2)
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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William Wycherley (3)
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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Elinor Wylie (2)
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
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Tammy Wynette (2)
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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Minoru Yamasaki (3)
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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William Butler Yeats (28)
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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Francis Parker Yockey (6)
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
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Paramahansa Yogananda (3)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Loretta Young (14)
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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Arthur Young (2)
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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Brigham Young (5)
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
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Henny Youngman (16)
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
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Lin Yutang (4)
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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Frank Zappa (12)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Emil Zatopek (6)
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
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Mao Zedong (12)
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Florenz Ziegfeld (2)
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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Emile Zola (6)
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Stefan Zweig (2)
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
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