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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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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.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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The least of learning is done in the classrooms.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
Why was I born with such contemporaries?: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.: Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.: Edward Chilton
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.: Anna Jameson
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.: Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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