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| A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. |
Robert Benchley |
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| The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. |
Robert Benchley |
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| I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. |
Robert Benchley |
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| Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. |
Robert Benchley |
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| There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. |
Robert Benchley |
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| Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading. |
Dave Storer |
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| The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fear |
Psalm 27 |
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| You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. |
Michael Jordan |
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| How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. |
Lou Holtz |
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| Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. |
Lou Holtz |
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| You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. |
Lou Holtz |
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| Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. |
Silius Italicus |
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| The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| People find life entirely too time-consuming. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| Value your words. Each one may be the last. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| He who limps is still walking. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| There are grammatical errors even in his silence. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| The first condition of immortality is death. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. |
Stanislaw Lec |
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| Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. |
Herodotus |
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| Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. |
Herodotus |
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| How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. |
Herodotus |
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| If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. |
Herodotus |
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| In soft regions are born soft men. |
Herodotus |
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| It is better to be envied than pitied. |
Herodotus |
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| Men trust their ears less than their eyes. |
Herodotus |
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| Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. |
Herodotus |
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| In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. |
Herodotus |
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| Force has no place where there is need of skill. |
Herodotus |
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| Haste in every business brings failures. |
Herodotus |
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| The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. |
Herodotus |
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| Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. |
Herodotus |
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| This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. |
Herodotus |
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| If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve. |
Gen. William Sherman |
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| Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. |
Adlai Stevenson |
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| She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. |
Adlai Stevenson |
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| Wayne Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Okay, party. Bonus. |
Wayne's World |
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| Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ. |
Wayne's World |
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| Wayne I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored. |
Wayne's World |
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| Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. |
Wayne's World |
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| Benjamin Hey, who wants Chinese Takeout I know a great place Wayne I'll have the cream of sum yung guy. |
Wayne's World |
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| Garth Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny |
Wayne's World |
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| Stacy Happy anniversary, Wayne. Wayne Stacy, we broke up two months ago. Stacy Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it Wayne Well, it does actually, that's what breaking up is. |
Wayne's World |
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| Wayne All I have to say about that is asphinctersayswhat. Arcade owner What Wayne Exactly. |
Wayne's World |
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| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
Kierkegaard |
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| Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
Kierkegaard |
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| Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. |
Kierkegaard |
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| Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
Kierkegaard |
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| The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. |
Fred A. Manske, Jr. |
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| The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it. |
John Evans |
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| The ballot is stronger than bullets. |
Joseph Schumpeter |
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| God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. |
Milton Friedman |
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| Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. |
Milton Friedman |
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| The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. |
Milton Friedman |
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| The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. |
Milton Friedman |
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| History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. |
Milton Friedman |
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| On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on' |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| The female of the species is more deadly than the male. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Funny how the new things are the old things. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| There's no jealousy in the grave. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| Every woman knows all about everything. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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| One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. |
Jewish Folk Saying |
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| Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. |
M Scott Peck |
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| You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. |
M Scott Peck |
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| Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force... |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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