He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
· George Herbert
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
· Charles Babbage
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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advise, do the the reverse and you are sure to be wise.
· Thomas Moore
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Faithful to the cause of Prohibition She hath done what she could.
· Carrie Amelia Nation
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Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
· Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherefore a good name is better than riches.
· Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
· Thomas Henry Huxley
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Extensive reading is a priceless treasure.
· Proverb
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
· Arnold H. Glasow
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
· William Shakespeare
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
· Guatama Buddha
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
· Judith Viorst
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
· Steven Wright
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
· Socrates
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The soul is, of course, the noblest part of man.
· Sir John Lubbock
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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
· Jim Rohn
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Give and Take ... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
· Kahlil Gibran
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
· S. Leonard Rubinstein
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Speak when youre angry, and youll make the best speech youll ever regret.
· Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
· Francis Bacon
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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
· Anita Brookner
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
· Stokely Carmichael
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Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
· William Butler Yeats
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
· Emily Dickinson
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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.
· James Agee
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
· Henry Havelock Ellis
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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
· Minna Thomas Antrim
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
· Sir Alan Patrick Herbe
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Money is best when acquired by one's own hands. It is not so good when inherited. It is bad when it is a brother's. It is worst when it is a woman's.
· Proverb
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You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?
· Charles Dickens
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Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.
· Robert Browning
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You must believe to achieve.
· Unknown
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat.
· Jane Wagner
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It is better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
· Proverb
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We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
· Lilly Tomlin
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Thinking makes the man.
· Amos Bronson Alcott
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The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
· Hanna Rion
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Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
· Lao Tzu
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I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
· Grace Hartigan
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
· Plato
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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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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
· Michel de Montaigne
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
· Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when suddenly the prescription ran out.
· Steven Wright
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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
· Florynce Kennedy
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
· George McGovern
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Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
· Dr. Robert Anthony
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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
· Henry David Thoreau
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
· Sir Winston Churchill
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
· Thomas Carlyle
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I have everything I had twenty years ago except now its all lower.
· Gypsy Rose Lee
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
· Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools And the beacons of wise men.
· Thomas Henry Huxley
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'Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.
· Mikhail Lermontov
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
· Aphra Behn
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I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.
· Katherine Dunham
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Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
· Sir Peter Ustinov
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They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend, and a dog is a man's best friend. What does that tell us about which sex is smarter.
· Unknown
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
· Barry M. Goldwater
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Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.
· Louise Suggs
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I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
· Roger Jones
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I have seldom known anyone who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.
· Rev. William Paley
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
· Muhammad Ali
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I inhabit a week, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
· John Quincy Adams
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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
· John Dryden
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
· Willis R. Whitney
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I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
· General Curtis Le May
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Love ... [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
· Theodore M. Burton
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.I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
· Charles de Secondat
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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
· Arnold Palmer
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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies.
· Roderick Thorp
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
· George Eliot
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