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The unspoken word never does harm.
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Kossuth
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.
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John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
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Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
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Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Ancient Proverb
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.
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Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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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
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