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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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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.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
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Ansel Adams (13)
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
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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.
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Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
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I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
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Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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