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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
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Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
What you risk reveals what you value.
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Jeanette Winterson
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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Ken Hakuta
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
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Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
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Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
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Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
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Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Oppression can only survive through silence.
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Carmen de Monteflores
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
I hate women because they always know where things are.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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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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