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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
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Henry C. Link
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
He who would travel happily must travel light.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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Paul Fussell
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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De La Lastra's Law
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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E. W. Dijkstra
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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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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