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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
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Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
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Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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Thomas Guthrie
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
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Vida D. Scudder
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
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John M. Ford
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
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Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
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The Belzer Rabbi
Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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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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