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Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.: Stephen King (1947 - )
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.: George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.: Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
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The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.: Bill Murray (1950 - )
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.: Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961)
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Don’t imagine the heartbreak before it happens.: Susan Kaye Quinn, When You Had Power, 2020
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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