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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.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.: John Sladek
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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.: Alan Patrick Herbert
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)