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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
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Elmer G. Letterman
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
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John Sladek
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
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Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
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W. H. Thompson
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
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Anonymous, Graffito
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
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Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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Jim Bishop
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
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Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
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William Hale White
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Quentin Crisp
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
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Jackie Mason (1934 - )
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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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