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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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William Arthur Ward
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
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Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
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Howard Newton
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
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Mark B. Cohen
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
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Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
Hope is only the love of life.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
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Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
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Hannah Green
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964)
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts
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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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