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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
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Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Camino Real
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
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Jose Marti
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
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George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
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Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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Herb Caen
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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David Brin (1950 - )
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
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Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
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the Dhammapada
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
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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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