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: Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? - Pope Julius III Italian pope 1550-1555 (1487 - 1555) #Quotes
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: I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be all - Federico Fellni #Quotes
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: But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbu - Carl Sagan #Quotes
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: If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a f - Anais Nin #Quotes
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: That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) #Quotes
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: There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams #Quotes
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: So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. - Haniel Long #Quotes
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: One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. - Benjamin Disreali #Quotes
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: We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'h - Jose Ortega y Gasset #Quotes
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: I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his br - Samuel Goldwyn #Quotes
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: It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC) #Quotes
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: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) #Quotes
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: The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock #Quotes
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: Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. - Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen #Quotes
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: If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving. - Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002 #Quotes
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: If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. - Rainer Maria Rilke German lyric poet (1875 - 1926) #Quotes
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: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith #Quotes
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: Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli #Quotes
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: Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) #Quotes
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: A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sidney J. Harris #Quotes
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: I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. - George Burns US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996) #Quotes
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: J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone sa - Spider-Man #Quotes
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: In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward - Edwin P. Whipple #Quotes
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: I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a - Oliver Wendell Holmes #Quotes
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: Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) #Quotes
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: Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert #Quotes
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: The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them. - Ossian Lang #Quotes
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: People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off. - Jewish Proverb #Quotes
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: Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) #Quotes
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: Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot #Quotes
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: We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. - Adelle Davis #Quotes
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: The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales French author & moralist (1613 - 1680) #Quotes
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: Thank God I have done my duty. - Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words #Quotes
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: He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb #Quotes
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: Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. - Walter Lippmann #Quotes
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: Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist (1909 - 2000) #Quotes
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: We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden #Quotes
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: Golf is a good walk, ruined. - Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) #Quotes
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: Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. - Jonathan Swift #Quotes
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: In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. - Akhenaton #Quotes
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: And now the sequence of events in no particular order. - Dan Rather US television newscaster (1931 - ) #Quotes
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: Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. - Jim #Quotes
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: The heart is wiser than the intellect. - Josiah Gilbert Holland #Quotes
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: God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire #Quotes
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: Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann von Goethe #Quotes
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: Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. - Winston Churchill #Quotes
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: Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. - Titus Livius Roman author & historian (59 BC - 17 AD) #Quotes
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: As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap. - Pinarius #Quotes
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: According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version o - Alan B. Watts #Quotes
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: The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substan
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