War is like love, it always finds a way.
· Bertolt Brecht
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From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
· Dante Alighieri
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
· Mark Twain
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While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is.
· Angela Schwindt
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In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don't like to do.
· Mary Kay Ash
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
· Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
· Thomas Henry Huxley
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
· George Eliot
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
· John Ruskin
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
· John A. Dix
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My eyes see the present and my mind paintsthe future.
· Unknown
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
· W. C. Fields
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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
· Edward Franklin Albee I
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
· Billy Sunday
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
· Francis Beaumont
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
· Zimmermann
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The liars punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
· George Bernard Shaw
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
· George Bernard Shaw
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
· John Kenneth Galbraith
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
· The Bible
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
· Nora Ephron
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
· Eric Hoffer
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The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
· S. I. Hayakawa
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And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
· The Bible
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The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
· Susan Sontag
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, 'Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.'
· William Cowper
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
· Thomas Fuller
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It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
· Blaise Pascal
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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
· Paul Gaugin
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Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
· Unknown
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You can't measure the heart of a champion.
· Unknown
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
· Dean Rusk
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years people grow old only by deserting their ideals.
· Samuel Ullman
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He hath eaten me out of house and home.
· William Shakespeare
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The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.
· Proverb
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
· Gerald Massey
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When I decide to be happy, I am. When I allow others to decide whether I will or will not, Im usually not.
· Andy Hall
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
· Unknown
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The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
· Richard Milhouse Nixon
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I dont remember ever seeing a happy man who had nothing to do.
· Unknown
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
· Jean Paul Richter
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I didn't do very well in math I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
· Calvin Trillin
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
· Oscar Wilde
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
· Napoleon Hill
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
· Mignon McLaughlin
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Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. I just kept knocking on doors until the right one opened.
· H. Joseph Gerber
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He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
· Thomas Paine
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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
· Martin Buber
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RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
· Sir William Slim
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
· Unknown
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Disappointment requires adequate planning.
· R. Bandler
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty And an art of probability.
· William Osler
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
· Jorge Luis Borges
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
· Madame Marie Curie
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
· Ava Gardner
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Large trees give more shade than fruit.
· Unknown
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!
· Charles Dickens
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: that word is love.
· Sophocles
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
· Arthur Schopenhauer
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Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this heat is making me absolutely crazy.
· Jack Nicholson
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We are separated from God in order that we may voluntarily return to him.
· Arthur Henry King
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
· Mahatma Gandhi
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Surviving [life] is the whole point. Quitting it will not make you strong. Surviving it will!
· Unknown
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No man is angry that feels not himself hurt.
· Francis Bacon
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
· Robert Frost
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Anything scarce is valuable; praise for example.
· Unknown
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I want your blood. And I want your soul. And I want them both right now!
· Unknown
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Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities.
· Walter Dill Scott
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
· Elbert Hubbard
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They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
· Emily Dickinson
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
· Wilfrid Sheed
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{The mature person} pours himself out in service to others.
· Lao Tzu
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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
· Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty.
· Bernard Mannes Baruch
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation .... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
· Henry David Thoreau
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What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
· Ernest Hemingway
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The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
· Frank Lloyd Wright
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This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism. How intensely I despise them!
· Albert Einstein
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.
· Sir Winston Churchill
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I've never felt better.
· Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
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Beloved King of Comedy
· Mack Sennett
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
· Robert Anson Heinlein
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
· William Hazlitt
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, But that they cease to love.
· William Somerset Maugha
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
· Margot Asquith
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