The harder you work, the luckier you get.
· Gary Player
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
· Otto von Bismarck
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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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What we need in this country today is more courage and more belief in the things that we have.
· Thomas J. Watson
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Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
· John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
· Gore Vidal
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Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait.... Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
· Leo J. Muir
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All the events in your life are a mirror image of your thoughts.
· Unknown
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
· Sydney J. Harris
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The block of granite, which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
· Thomas Carlyle
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
· Thaddeus Golas
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There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
· Unknown
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A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
· Benjamin Disraeli
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Within the problem lies the solution.
· Milton Katselas
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Love, friendship, respect, will never unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
· Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
· Richard Milhouse Nixon
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out.
· Mark Twain
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
· John Donne
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It's so much more friendly with two.
· Alan Alexander Milne
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An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
· David Augsburger
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When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
· Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
· Walter Lippmann
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When the bier of anyone passeth by thee, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim, rise to thy feet.
· Prophet Muhammad
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Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. ... who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make his love known?
· William Shakespeare
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
· Josh Billings
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
· Richard M. Devos
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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
· Ben Jonson
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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
· Elbert Hubbard
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To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital mechanics understands that.
· Scott Cherf:
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Luke: The Force? Ben: Now, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.
· Luke Skywalker
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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
· Jerry Gillies
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Doubt that the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth shine Doubt that truth be a liar But never doubt that I love.
· William Shakespeare
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
· Otto von Bismarck
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
· Unknown
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
· Napoleon Hill
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Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find out.
· Logan Pearsall Smith
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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
· Bailey
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
· William Penn
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We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it.
· William Ellery Channing
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Sympathizers are spectators; empathizers wear game shoes.
· John Eyberg
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
· Benjamin Franklin
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
· Bertrand Russell
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We all are where we are because we want to be there.
· Unknown
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This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right.
· Unknown
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Smith & Wesson: The ultimate point & click user interface.
· Unknown
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
· Albert Einstein
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Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
· I Ching
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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
· Unknown
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Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
· Alphonse Karr
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
· Betty Friedan
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It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. 'If it is not, what is?' He could not endure those remembered words.
· Ursula K. Le Guin
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What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others remains and is immortal.
· Albert Pike
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
· Helen Rowland
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
· Poul Anderson
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Nobody notices when things go right.
· Proverb
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I must learn what is true in order to do what is right.
· Unknown
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
· Henry Louis Mencken
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Virtue is not hereditary.
· Thomas Paine
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I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
· Ogden Nash
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
· Georges Pompidou
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Happy and successful cooking doesnt rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.
· Georges Blanc
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
· Christian Nestell Bove
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
· Bernard Avishai
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Desire nothing, chafe not at fate, nor at nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
· H. P. Blavatsky
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Man will endure a lot of pain to obtain a little pleasure .
· Unknown
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EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
· Robert Charles Benchley
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
· Miles Davis
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
· Robert Frost
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
· Publilius Syrus
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
· Saul David Alinsky
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