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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
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Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
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Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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Henrik Tikkanen
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
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Malayan Proverb
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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