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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.: Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.: Christina Petrowsky
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
God must become an activity in our consciousness.: Joel S. Goldsmith
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Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Hitch your wagon to a star.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), (attributed)
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If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0