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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Ramsay Clark
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
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Muriel Spark (1918 - )
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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David Reisman
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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W. L. George
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
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Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
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Elizabeth Stone
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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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