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| Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. |
Andr Gide |
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| There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. |
Andr Gide |
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| In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. |
Andr Gide |
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| It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. |
Andr Gide |
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| Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. |
Andr Gide |
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| Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. |
Andr Gide |
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| The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. |
Andr Gide |
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| One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. |
Andr Gide |
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| Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. |
Andr Gide |
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| It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not. |
Andr Gide |
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| Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
Andr Gide |
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| Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it. |
Andr Gide |
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| The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| Never give up on anybody. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. |
Hubert Humphrey |
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| There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it) but 'That's funny ...' |
Isaac Asimov |
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| One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. |
Isaac Asimov |
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| The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. |
Hume Cronyn |
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| Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. |
David Broder |
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| The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. |
Anais Nin |
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| When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. |
Anais Nin |
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| Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. |
Anais Nin |
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| We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. |
Anais Nin |
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| Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. |
Anais Nin |
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| Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. |
Anais Nin |
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| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. |
Anais Nin |
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| Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. |
Anais Nin |
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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 fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. |
Anais Nin |
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| And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
Anais Nin |
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| Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. |
Anais Nin |
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| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
Anais Nin |
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| When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. |
Anais Nin |
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| 90 of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. |
William J. O'Neil |
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| The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. |
John Powell |
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| Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. |
John Powell |
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| Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too. |
Billy Madison |
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| Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really. |
Billy Madison |
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| Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out. |
Billy Madison |
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| Billy T-T-T-T-Today, Junior |
Billy Madison |
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| Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me |
Billy Madison |
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| Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap. |
Billy Madison |
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| Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll. |
Billy Madison |
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| Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. |
Billy Madison |
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| A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. |
Zadok Rabinwitz |
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| If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. |
James Halliwell |
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| Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. |
Josephus Daniels |
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| A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The truth is more important than the facts. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| An idea is salvation by imagination. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. |
Burton Hills |
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| Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I greet you as the shapers of American society. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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