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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.: Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.: Franklin P. Jones
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.: Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.: Unknown
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night