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| The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. |
John Donne |
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| No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent. |
John Donne |
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| Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name. |
John Donne |
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| Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. |
John Donne |
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| Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. |
John Donne |
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| More than kisses, letters mingle souls. |
John Donne |
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| No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee. |
John Donne |
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| Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. |
John Donne |
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| Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. |
John Donne |
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| Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. |
John Donne |
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| Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| Wooderson The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L-I-V-I-N. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man There's some spooky shit goin' on there. And it's green too. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| Wooderson That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age. |
Dazed and Confused |
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| You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. |
Harry S Truman |
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| All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. |
Harry S Truman |
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| It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours. |
Harry S Truman |
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| If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Study men, not historians. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. |
Harry S Truman |
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| It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. |
Harry S Truman |
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| How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt |
Harry S Truman |
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| Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. |
Harry S Truman |
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| If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. |
Harry S Truman |
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| The White House is the finest prison in the world. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. |
Harry S Truman |
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| In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. |
Harry S Truman |
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| It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. |
Harry S Truman |
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| A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
Harry S Truman |
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| The only new thing is history we don't know. |
Harry S Truman |
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| The absence of war is not peace. |
Harry S Truman |
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| It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. |
Harry S Truman |
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| When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. |
Harry S Truman |
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| You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. |
Harry S Truman |
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| America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. |
Harry S Truman |
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| Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. |
Harry S Truman |
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| I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. |
Harry S Truman |
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| If you cannot convince them, confuse them. |
Harry S Truman |
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| And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| The man who dies rich dies disgraced. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. |
Andrew Carnegie |
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| Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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| The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. |
William Strong |
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| Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. |
Og Mandino |
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| Do all things with love. |
Og Mandino |
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| I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. |
Og Mandino |
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| I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. |
Og Mandino |
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| Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. |
Og Mandino |
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| The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. |
Og Mandino |
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| Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. |
Og Mandino |
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| The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. |
Og Mandino |
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| Frost When was the last time you stopped to appreciate a good sunset- oh yeah that's right. You were born a vampire. |
Blade |
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| Blade You better wake up. The world you live in is nothing but a sugarcoated topping There is another world beneath it. And if you want to survive it you better learn how to PULL THE TRIGGER |
Blade |
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| Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct |
Blade |
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| Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll tell you what we are, sister. We're the top of the f***ing food chain. |
Blade |
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| Blade He makes the weapons, I use them. |
Blade |
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| Blade There are worse things out tonight than vampires. Dr. Karen Jenson Like what Blade Like me. |
Blade |
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| Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. |
Sir Arthur Helps |
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| Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. |
Sir Arthur Helps |
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| It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. |
Sir Arthur Helps |
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