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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.): Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.: Anonymous
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.: E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.: German Proverb
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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.: Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne