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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
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Jane E. Brody
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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Karen Sunde
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
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Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Alvin Toffler
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
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Leona Helmsly
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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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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