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Edward Abbey (10)

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

232 views regarding alone

Lascelles Abercrombie (3)

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

247 sayings about age

Ralph Abernathy (2)

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

171 quotes regarding change

Dean Acheson (4)

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

171 thoughts about change

Henry Adams (22)

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

232 thoughts regarding alone

James Truslow Adams (4)

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

247 wisdom & wit regarding age

Franklin P. Adams (8)

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

247 other sayings about age

Maude Adams (2)

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

141 sayings regarding failure

Ansel Adams (13)

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

421 thoughts about art

Joey Adams (7)

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

198 quotes relating to business

Jane Addams (2)

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

44 quotes about attitude

George Ade (4)

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

179 wisdom & wit relating to marriage

Konrad Adenauer (4)

A thick skin is a gift from God.

396 views about God

Felix Adler (4)

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

240 sayings about faith

Alfred Adler (9)

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

165 other quotes about future

Stella Adler (2)

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

421 other quotes about art

Theodor Adorno (26)

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

247 thoughts about age

Spiro T. Agnew (3)

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

184 quotes about government

Shmuel Y. Agnon (2)

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

79 thoughts about food

Howard Aiken (2)

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

198 sayings relating to business

Alvin Ailey (3)

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

150 more wisdom & wit regarding music

Anna Akhmatova (2)

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

158 thoughts about courage

Josef Albers (3)

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

410 views regarding nature

Sholom Aleichem (3)

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

419 views regarding life

Alexander Alekhine (3)

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

212 quotes about beauty

Samuel Alexander (3)

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

174 sayings regarding experience

Horatio Alger (2)

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

340 thoughts regarding happiness

Nelson Algren (2)

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

41 sayings regarding legal

Steve Allen (2)

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

79 other sayings regarding humor

James Allen (12)

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

158 quotes relating to courage

James Lane Allen (2)

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

141 more views about failure

Gracie Allen (3)

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

86 quotes regarding family

Fred Allen (13)

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

198 quotes relating to business

George Allen, Sr. (4)

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

353 other quotes about best

Luther Allison (2)

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

32 quotes about positive

B. R. Ambedkar (6)

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

43 wisdom & wit relating to equality

Marian Anderson (3)

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

135 other thoughts regarding dreams

Ivo Andric (2)

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

270 more sayings about fear

Jean Anouilh (14)

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

421 quotes about art

Susan B. Anthony (14)

Failure is impossible.

141 other quotes about failure

Mary Antin (2)

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.

24 views regarding birthday

Minna Antrim (4)

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

247 thoughts about religion

Elizabeth Arden (2)

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

212 more sayings about beauty

Hannah Arendt (9)

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.

247 more quotes about age

Richard Armour (3)

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

212 quotes about beauty

Louis Armstrong (4)

What we play is life.

419 more views about life

Arthur Ashe (10)

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

44 quotes regarding attitude

Isaac Asimov (16)

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.

198 quotes about business

Nancy Astor (3)

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

171 quotes relating to change

W. H. Auden (21)

Now is the age of anxiety.

247 other sayings about age

Sri Aurobindo (2)

Hidden nature is secret God.

410 thoughts regarding nature

Alfred Austin (3)

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

29 more quotes regarding gardening

Bill Ayers (2)

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

15 more sayings relating to amazing

Irving Babbitt (5)

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

240 sayings relating to faith

Roger Babson (3)

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

141 views relating to failure

Gaston Bachelard (5)

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

212 quotes regarding beauty

Robert Baden-Powell (3)

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

340 views relating to happiness

Arthur Baer (2)

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

19 other quotes regarding diet

Enid Bagnold (2)

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

38 thoughts regarding dad

Pearl Bailey (7)

You must change in order to survive.

171 more sayings about change

Philip James Bailey (6)

The sole equality on earth is death.

320 more views about death

Liberty Hyde Bailey (6)

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

232 views about alone

James Baldwin (3)

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

212 quotes about beauty

James A. Baldwin (24)

People can cry much easier than they can change.

171 views relating to change

Faith Baldwin (2)

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

41 views regarding communication

Stanley Baldwin (4)

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

240 sayings about faith

Arthur Balfour (3)

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

421 quotes regarding art

Lucille Ball (11)

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

247 quotes about age

Toni Cade Bambara (2)

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

141 thoughts relating to failure

George Bancroft (3)

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

396 other quotes relating to God

Lester Bangs (2)

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

421 more sayings about art

Tallulah Bankhead (7)

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

32 wisdom & wit about car

William Barclay (2)

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

414 quotes about great

Bob Barr (2)

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

137 quotes about intelligence

Amelia Barr (5)

Old age is the verdict of life.

247 views about age

Luis Barragan (5)

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

62 more quotes regarding architecture

James M. Barrie (13)

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

353 thoughts about best

J. M. Barrie (2)

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

43 views regarding equality

Dave Barry (27)

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

421 sayings about art

John Barrymore (12)

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

232 more views regarding alone

Karl Barth (6)

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

232 wisdom & wit about alone

Roland Barthes (2)

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

257 views about knowledge

Clara Barton (3)

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

198 other wisdom & wit about business

Bernard Baruch (12)

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

247 thoughts about age

Gregory Bateson (4)

All experience is subjective.

174 other views about experience

Anne Baxter (3)

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

353 wisdom & wit regarding best

Samuel Beckett (4)

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

198 wisdom & wit about business

Max Beerbohm (10)

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

421 wisdom & wit about art

Brendan Behan (4)

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

320 more quotes relating to death

Alexander Graham Bell (3)

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

238 sayings relating to success

Hilaire Belloc (6)

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

232 other quotes regarding alone

Eleanor Robson Belmont (2)

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

32 views regarding car

David Ben-Gurion (2)

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.

158 other views about courage

Robert Benchley (10)

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

320 wisdom & wit about death

Julien Benda (2)

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

270 thoughts about fear

Ruth Benedict (3)

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

156 wisdom & wit regarding strength

Stephen Vincent Benet (2)

Dreaming men are haunted men.

135 more quotes regarding dreams

Walter Benjamin (7)

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

421 more views regarding art

Arnold Bennett (3)

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

171 sayings relating to change

Jack Benny (4)

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

247 other wisdom & wit relating to age

A. C. Benson (3)

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

247 thoughts about age

Bernard Berenson (2)

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

212 other wisdom & wit regarding beauty

Jose Bergamin (5)

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

43 quotes about forgiveness

Ingrid Bergman (5)

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

232 sayings relating to alone

Henri Bergson (3)

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

171 sayings about change

Irving Berlin (2)

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

419 other quotes regarding life

Georges Bernanos (7)

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

320 quotes regarding death

William Bernbach (5)

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

421 other views about art

Sarah Bernhardt (6)

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.

56 quotes relating to anger

Leonard Bernstein (5)

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

41 views about communication

Annie Besant (2)

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

174 other thoughts about experience

Mary McLeod Bethune (3)

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

240 more views about faith

Ugo Betti (2)

There is no forgiveness in nature.

43 thoughts about forgiveness

Aneurin Bevan (11)

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

198 quotes about business

Vinoba Bhave (2)

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.

24 more views regarding fitness

Steven Biko (2)

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

44 other thoughts about attitude

Buffalo Bill (7)

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

38 more quotes about dad

Augustine Birrell (3)

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

163 quotes regarding friendship

Jim Bishop (3)

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.

247 views about age

H. P. Blavatsky (2)

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

410 more quotes regarding nature

Allan Bloom (2)

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

204 quotes about education

William J. H. Boetcker (4)

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

158 quotes regarding courage

Niels Bohr (9)

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

353 other views regarding best

Erma Bombeck (33)

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

24 thoughts relating to birthday

Edward Bond (3)

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

247 thoughts about religion

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (7)

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

396 other sayings about God

Pierre Bonnard (2)

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

421 more sayings about art

Sonny Bono (2)

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

41 quotes about legal

Corrie Ten Boom (7)

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

270 other quotes about fear

Victor Borge (2)

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

38 other quotes regarding dad

Jorge Luis Borges (7)

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

320 other sayings about death

Hal Borland (3)

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

410 other thoughts relating to nature

Anatoli Boukreev (2)

I respect Everest very much.

112 quotes about respect

Randolph Bourne (2)

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

174 quotes relating to experience

Elizabeth Bowen (10)

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

232 wisdom & wit regarding alone

F. H. Bradley (2)

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

340 more quotes regarding happiness

Omar N. Bradley (5)

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

320 other thoughts about death

Constantin Brancusi (2)

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

62 more quotes about architecture

Louis D. Brandeis (7)

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

174 more quotes about experience

Georg Brandes (3)

Being gifted needs courage.

158 quotes about courage

Georges Braque (2)

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

230 sayings about poetry

Bertolt Brecht (14)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

171 sayings about change

Gerald Brenan (3)

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

179 wisdom & wit about marriage

Andre Breton (5)

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

212 quotes regarding beauty

Joseph Brodsky (8)

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

44 wisdom & wit about attitude

Jacob Bronowski (6)

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

232 quotes about alone

Rupert Brooke (3)

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.

15 views regarding cool

Van Wyck Brooks (2)

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

158 sayings about courage

Gwendolyn Brooks (2)

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

421 quotes about art

Phillips Brooks (7)

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

414 wisdom & wit about great

James Broughton (12)

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

247 other quotes regarding age

David R. Brower (2)

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

25 wisdom & wit regarding environmental

John Mason Brown (2)

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

340 sayings regarding happiness

Dennis Brown (3)

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

232 sayings about alone

Anatole Broyard (2)

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

230 views regarding poetry

Lenny Bruce (5)

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

198 quotes about business

William Jennings Bryan (5)

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

204 other quotes about education

Pearl S. Buck (18)

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

232 views about alone

Charles Bukowski (5)

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

232 quotes about alone

Sitting Bull (2)

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

419 more quotes regarding life

Luther Burbank (6)

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

25 wisdom & wit about environmental

Anthony Burgess (2)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

232 more thoughts regarding alone

Leo Burnett (2)

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.

320 sayings regarding death

Daniel Burnham (2)

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

62 more wisdom & wit about architecture

George Burns (21)

At my age flowers scare me.

247 quotes regarding age

John Burroughs (17)

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

232 sayings regarding alone

William S. Burroughs (9)

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

171 sayings about change

Leo Buscaglia (17)

Change is the end result of all true learning.

171 thoughts regarding change

Samuel Butler (68)

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

62 quotes regarding architecture

Smedley Butler (2)

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

131 views regarding home

Nicholas M. Butler (4)

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

353 more wisdom & wit regarding best

Charlie Byrd (2)

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

35 more views about design

James Branch Cabell (2)

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

46 other quotes about patriotism

Herb Caen (2)

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

202 other thoughts about society

John Cage (4)

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

198 quotes regarding business

Abraham Cahan (6)

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

56 more quotes about anger

Alexander Calder (2)

I paint with shapes.

421 more quotes relating to art

Taylor Caldwell (10)

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

320 quotes about death

Maria Callas (3)

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

421 other sayings regarding art

Cab Calloway (2)

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

340 quotes about happiness

Jeanne Calment (3)

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

320 wisdom & wit about death

John Cameron (6)

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

91 quotes about health

Joseph Campbell (18)

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

13 other wisdom & wit about computers

Alastair Campbell (5)

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.

38 more wisdom & wit regarding dad

Albert Camus (52)

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

232 thoughts about alone

Elias Canetti (6)

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

320 more views regarding death

Jimmy Cannon (2)

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

50 other quotes relating to sports

Eddie Cantor (2)

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

179 quotes about marriage

Robert Capa (2)

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

212 sayings about hope

Karel Capek (2)

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

199 more quotes relating to freedom

Truman Capote (4)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

141 wisdom & wit regarding failure

Al Capp (4)

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

421 wisdom & wit regarding art

Stokely Carmichael (8)

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

158 quotes relating to courage

Marcel Carne (2)

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

112 more quotes about respect

Dale Carnegie (21)

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

44 other quotes about attitude

Andrew Carnegie (13)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

247 thoughts about age

Alexis Carrel (5)

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

212 quotes relating to beauty

Lewis Carroll (7)

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

24 sayings about birthday

Angela Carter (3)

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

247 quotes regarding age

Joyce Cary (4)

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.

32 views about car

Pablo Casals (3)

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

421 more views regarding art

Robert Casey (5)

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

41 quotes about legal

Carlos Castaneda (2)

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

257 other sayings regarding knowledge

Carlos Castenada (2)

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.

257 views about knowledge

Willa Cather (9)

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

247 thoughts relating to age

Paul Cezanne (23)

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

247 more quotes about age

Marc Chagall (5)

Great art picks up where nature ends.

421 more quotes about art

Joshua Chamberlain (2)

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

165 quotes about future

Neville Chamberlain (2)

I believe it is peace in our time.

223 thoughts about peace

Oswald Chambers (5)

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

15 thoughts relating to amazing

Raymond Chandler (8)

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

247 more thoughts about age

Coco Chanel (16)

A woman has the age she deserves.

247 more quotes regarding age

Charlie Chaplin (11)

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

232 sayings regarding alone

John Jay Chapman (3)

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

184 other views about government

Cesar Chavez (3)

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.

79 quotes relating to food

John Cheever (9)

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

232 other quotes regarding alone

Anton Chekhov (19)

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

232 other sayings relating to alone

Gilbert K. Chesterton (52)

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

62 other thoughts about architecture

Agatha Christie (4)

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

247 thoughts regarding age

Winston Churchill (74)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

44 quotes regarding attitude

John Ciardi (6)

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

421 other thoughts regarding art

Emile M. Cioran (18)

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

320 thoughts relating to death

John Clayton (4)

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

232 wisdom & wit about alone

Eldridge Cleaver (2)

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

249 other views relating to history

Georges Clemenceau (2)

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

174 sayings relating to experience

Grover Cleveland (6)

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

184 thoughts about government

Patsy Cline (4)

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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Don't come home a failure.

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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

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Robert Collier (9)

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

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Arthur Holly Compton (2)

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

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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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Joseph Conrad (14)

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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Charles Horton Cooley (5)

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

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Calvin Coolidge (17)

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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Le Corbusier (5)

A house is a machine for living in.

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After all, is football a game or a religion?

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He who keeps his cool best wins.

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Jacques Yves Cousteau (6)

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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Noel Coward (3)

The higher the building the lower the morals.

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Frank Crane (2)

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

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Quentin Crisp (8)

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

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Aleister Crowley (4)

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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Will Cuppy (5)

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

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Marie Curie (4)

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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George William Curtis (6)

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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Roald Dahl (4)

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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Richard J. Daley (2)

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

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Salvador Dali (11)

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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Bobby Darin (8)

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

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Clarence Darrow (14)

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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W. H. Davies (2)

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

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Robertson Davies (3)

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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Marc Davis (2)

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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Bette Davis (21)

Old age is no place for sissies.

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Alexander Jackson Davis (2)

I am but an architectural composer.

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Miles Davis (3)

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

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Sammy Davis, Jr. (17)

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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Clarence Day (4)

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

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Dorothy Day (4)

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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Moshe Dayan (5)

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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Simone de Beauvoir (12)

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (5)

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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Malcolm De Chazal (6)

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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Pierre de Coubertin (3)

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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Edmond de Goncourt (2)

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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Remy de Gourmont (2)

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

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Guy de Maupassant (4)

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

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Agnes de Mille (2)

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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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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Peter De Vries (10)

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

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James Dean (8)

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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Eugene V. Debs (2)

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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Robert Delaunay (6)

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

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W. Edwards Deming (8)

It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.

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Jack Dempsey (2)

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

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John Derek (2)

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

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John Dewey (9)

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

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James Dickey (3)

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

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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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Ernest Dimnet (3)

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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Paul Dirac (2)

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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Everett Dirksen (3)

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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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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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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Daphne du Maurier (2)

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

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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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Isadora Duncan (5)

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

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Finley Peter Dunne (3)

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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Marguerite Duras (4)

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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Lawrence Durrell (7)

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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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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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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Sherwood Eddy (3)

Faith is not contrary to reason.

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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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Monica Edwards (2)

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

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Tryon Edwards (8)

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

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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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Black Elk (5)

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

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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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Ralph Ellison (2)

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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Friedrich Engels (2)

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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Paul Engle (2)

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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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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M. C. Escher (2)

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

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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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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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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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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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Enrico Fermi (2)

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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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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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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Ernst Fischer (2)

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

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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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Ella Fitzgerald (2)

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

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Errol Flynn (2)

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

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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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George Foreman (2)

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

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E. M. Forster (26)

History develops, art stands still.

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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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Emmet Fox (4)

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

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Redd Foxx (4)

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

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Anatole France (20)

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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Felix Frankfurter (6)

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

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Sigmund Freud (26)

If youth knew if age could.

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Anna Freud (3)

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

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Ford Frick (2)

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

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Max Frisch (7)

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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Charles Frohman (2)

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

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Erich Fromm (16)

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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Robert Frost (50)

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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James Anthony Froude (7)

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

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Eva Gabor (6)

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

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Mahatma Gandhi (100)

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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Indira Gandhi (5)

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

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Greta Garbo (4)

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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Jerry Garcia (4)

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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Judy Garland (7)

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

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Marcus Garvey (7)

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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Jose Ortega y Gasset (4)

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

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Paul Gauguin (4)

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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Marvin Gaye (4)

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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Martha Gellhorn (2)

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

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Jean Genet (5)

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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Henry George (4)

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

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J. Paul Getty (12)

I buy when other people are selling.

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A. Bartlett Giamatti (2)

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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Khalil Gibran (56)

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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Andre Gide (22)

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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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2)

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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Allen Ginsberg (3)

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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Jean Giraudoux (7)

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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Lillian Gish (2)

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

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William E. Gladstone (7)

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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Ellen Glasgow (4)

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

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Jackie Gleason (2)

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

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Emma Goldman (10)

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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Barry Goldwater (9)

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

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Samuel Goldwyn (16)

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

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Lefty Gomez (2)

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

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Maxim Gorky (4)

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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Kenneth Grahame (2)

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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Cary Grant (3)

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

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Robert Graves (4)

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

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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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Joyce Grenfell (2)

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

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Zane Grey (5)

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

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Lewis Grizzard (2)

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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Sacha Guitry (5)

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

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Walter Hagen (2)

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

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George Halas (2)

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

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Edward Everett Hale (3)

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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Dag Hammarskjold (13)

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

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Knut Hamsun (2)

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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Thomas Hardy (14)

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Augustus Hare (5)

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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Keith Haring (2)

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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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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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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Helen Hayes (8)

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

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Ben Hecht (3)

Love is a hole in the heart.

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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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Anna Held (5)

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

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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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Lillian Hellman (7)

People change and forget to tell each other.

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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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Audrey Hepburn (14)

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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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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Age, like distance lends a double charm.

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

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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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Hermann Hesse (10)

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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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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Adolf Hitler (2)

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

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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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Hans Hofmann (2)

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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Soichiro Honda (2)

Success is 99 percent failure.

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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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J. Edgar Hoover (2)

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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Karen Horney (3)

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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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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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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James Huneker (2)

All men of action are dreamers.

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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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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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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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Eugene Ionesco (2)

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

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Muhammad Iqbal (14)

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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Holbrook Jackson (4)

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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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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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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George Jessel (2)

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah (5)

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

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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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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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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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Chief Joseph (17)

I know that my race must change.

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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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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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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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Grace Kelly (2)

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

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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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Elizabeth Kenny (2)

He who angers you conquers you.

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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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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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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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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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Jerzy Kosinski (6)

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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Karl Kraus (8)

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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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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Stanley Kubrick (2)

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

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Maggie Kuhn (3)

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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Alan Ladd (4)

I'm working myself to death.

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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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Corliss Lamont (2)

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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Michael Landon (5)

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

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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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Richard Le Gallienne (4)

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

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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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Timothy Leary (6)

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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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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John Lennon (17)

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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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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Oscar Levant (4)

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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Sam Levenson (3)

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

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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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Robert Ley (2)

Only faith is sufficient.

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Roy Lichtenstein (2)

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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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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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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Henry Cabot Lodge (3)

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

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Vince Lombardi (16)

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

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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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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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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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Clare Boothe Luce (11)

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

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Bela Lugosi (6)

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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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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Douglas MacArthur (11)

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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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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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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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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Malcolm X (21)

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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Stephane Mallarme (3)

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

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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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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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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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Orison Swett Marden (25)

No man fails who does his best.

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Jacques Maritain (4)

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

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Bob Marley (11)

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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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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William Moulton Marston (3)

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

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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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Groucho Marx (29)

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

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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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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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Hattie McDaniel (5)

I did my best, and God did the rest.

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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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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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H. L. Mencken (60)

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

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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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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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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

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Hope will never be silent.

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

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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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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

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Art is science made clear.

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

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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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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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

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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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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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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

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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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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

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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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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

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Malcolm Muggeridge (8)

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

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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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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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God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

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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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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

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Benito Mussolini (8)

Inactivity is death.

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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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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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

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Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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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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John Osborne (2)

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

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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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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

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Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

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Trust in God - she will provide.

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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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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

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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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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

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Freedom is a system based on courage.

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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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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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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

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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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Pablo Picasso (29)

It takes a long time to become young.

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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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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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William Pitt (2)

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

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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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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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It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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Jackson Pollock (4)

Every good painter paints what he is.

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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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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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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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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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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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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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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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Yitzhak Rabin (8)

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

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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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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

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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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Ernest Renan (2)

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

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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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Luck is the residue of design.

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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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Jose Rizal (3)

The youth is the hope of our future.

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Jane Roberts (3)

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

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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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Elihu Root (2)

Men do not fail they give up trying.

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Isaac Rosenberg (2)

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

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Christina Rossetti (4)

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

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Jean Rostand (13)

To be adult is to be alone.

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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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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

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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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I'm famous. That's my job.

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Helena Rubinstein (2)

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

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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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Rosalind Russell (4)

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

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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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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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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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May Sarton (3)

In the country of pain we are each alone.

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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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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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Pierre Schaeffer (2)

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

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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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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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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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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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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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Charles M. Schwab (3)

The man who has done his best has done everything.

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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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Morrie Schwartz (2)

Everything that gets born dies.

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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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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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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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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Anne Sexton (2)

Death's in the good-bye.

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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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Moshe Sharett (2)

Arabs respect only the language of force.

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George Bernard Shaw (115)

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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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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Alan Shepard (2)

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

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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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Shel Silverstein (2)

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

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Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

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Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

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His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

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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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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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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

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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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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

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I shall not grow conservative with age.

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

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It is very easy to love alone.

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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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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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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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All music is beautiful.

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Writing is a communication.

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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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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

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What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

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The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

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Age considers youth ventures.

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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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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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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

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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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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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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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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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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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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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