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| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul. |
Smiley Blanton |
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| Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. |
Jonathan Larson |
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| Hope is the denial of reality. |
Margaret Weis |
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| Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. |
'Detroit Journal' |
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| The true science and study of man is man. |
Pierre Charron |
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| The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. |
Pierre Charron |
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| He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it. |
Pierre Charron |
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| The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. |
Pierre Charron |
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| I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
The Road Not Taken |
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| The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. |
Don Herold |
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| There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
Don Herold |
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| This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. |
Scott Reed |
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| I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew. |
Janet Minor |
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| We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. |
La Bruyere |
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| Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. |
La Bruyere |
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| Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. |
La Bruyere |
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| That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect. |
La Bruyere |
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| There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. |
La Bruyere |
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| No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. |
La Bruyere |
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| This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. |
La Bruyere |
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| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
La Bruyere |
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| Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. |
La Bruyere |
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| Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. |
Yogi Berra |
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| It's deja vu all over again |
Yogi Berra |
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| Half this game is 90 mental. |
Yogi Berra |
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| It ain't over 'till it's over. |
Yogi Berra |
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| Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. |
Yogi Berra |
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| The future ain't what it used to be. |
Yogi Berra |
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| You can observe a lot just by watching. |
Yogi Berra |
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| This is like deja vu all over again. |
Yogi Berra |
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| I didn't really say everything I said. |
Yogi Berra |
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| When you come to a fork in the road, take it. |
Yogi Berra |
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| If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. |
Yogi Berra |
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| Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical. |
Yogi Berra |
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| No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. |
Yogi Berra |
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| Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. |
Octavio Paz |
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| Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. |
Octavio Paz |
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| 'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. |
Octavio Paz |
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| There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. |
Richard Nelson Bolles |
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| Up men to your posts Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. |
Gen. George Pickett |
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| To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. |
Wendell Berry |
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| In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. |
Wendell Berry |
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| To change and to change for the better are two different things. |
German proverb |
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| Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher. |
German proverb |
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| No answer is also an answer. |
German proverb |
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| It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain. |
German proverb |
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| Who begins too much accomplishes little. |
German proverb |
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| A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. |
German proverb |
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| One does evil enough when one does nothing good. |
German proverb |
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| Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.) |
German proverb |
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| Where there are no swamps there are no frogs. |
German proverb |
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| Never give advice unless asked. |
German proverb |
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| Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence. |
German proverb |
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| The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. |
German proverb |
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| A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit. |
German proverb |
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| When the fox preaches, look to the geese. |
German proverb |
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| The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people. |
German proverb |
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| Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. |
German proverb |
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| He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. |
German proverb |
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| God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. |
German proverb |
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| Old birds are hard to pluck. |
German proverb |
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| Whose bread I eat his song I sing. |
German proverb |
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| Charity sees the need not the cause. |
German proverb |
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| Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. |
Sir Theodore Martin |
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| Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. |
Richard Kemph |
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| I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. |
Tommy Bolt |
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| None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. |
Kathleen Norris |
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| Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. |
Gen. Joseph Stilwell |
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| Don't let the bastards grind you down. |
Gen. Joseph Stilwell |
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| Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. |
Montesquieu |
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| The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. |
Edward W. Howe |
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| If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. |
Edward W. Howe |
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| There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. |
Christine Lavin |
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| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| All words are pegs to hang ideas on. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Repentance is another name for aspiration. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
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