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| Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. |
Joseph Conrad |
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| The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. |
Nan Fairbrother |
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| Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. |
Will Rogers |
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| With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. |
Will Rogers |
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| Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. |
Will Rogers |
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| We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can. |
Will Rogers |
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| I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to. |
Will Rogers |
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| There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. |
Will Rogers |
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| What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. |
Will Rogers |
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| I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. |
Will Rogers |
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| There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act. |
Will Rogers |
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| Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. |
Will Rogers |
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| The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. |
Will Rogers |
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| The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. |
Will Rogers |
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| Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. |
Will Rogers |
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| You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. |
Will Rogers |
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| If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out |
Will Rogers |
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| Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. |
Will Rogers |
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| We have the best Congress money can buy. |
Will Rogers |
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| I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat |
Will Rogers |
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| Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects. |
Will Rogers |
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| So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. |
Will Rogers |
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| Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. |
Will Rogers |
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| Never let yesterday use up too much of today. |
Will Rogers |
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| We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. |
Will Rogers |
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| The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President' |
Will Rogers |
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| It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. |
Will Rogers |
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| I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money. |
Will Rogers |
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| Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead. |
Will Rogers |
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| If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry. |
Will Rogers |
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| The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved. |
Will Rogers |
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| I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. |
Will Rogers |
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| Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. |
Will Rogers |
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| Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House |
Will Rogers |
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| I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. |
Will Rogers |
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| Nothing you can't spell will ever work. |
Will Rogers |
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| I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. |
Will Rogers |
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| Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. |
Will Rogers |
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| An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. |
Will Rogers |
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| This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. |
Will Rogers |
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| The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. |
Will Rogers |
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| The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. |
Will Rogers |
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| Politics is applesauce. |
Will Rogers |
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| Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. |
Will Rogers |
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| On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. |
Will Rogers |
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| Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. |
Will Rogers |
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| There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. |
Will Rogers |
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| Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. |
Will Rogers |
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| The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. |
Will Rogers |
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| We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. |
Will Rogers |
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| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. |
Will Rogers |
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| There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. |
Will Rogers |
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| The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. |
Will Rogers |
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| See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails |
Will Rogers |
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| Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. |
Will Rogers |
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| Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. |
Will Rogers |
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| I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like. |
Will Rogers |
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| You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. |
Will Rogers |
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| Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. |
Will Rogers |
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| The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. |
Blaine Lee |
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| The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. |
Blaine Lee |
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| A winner never whines. |
Paul Brown |
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| When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. |
Paul Brown |
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| Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis |
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| The more laws, the less justice. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis |
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| Form follows function. |
Louis Henri Sullivan |
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| He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. |
Johann von Schiller |
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| Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president |
Henry Kissinger |
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| If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
Henry Kissinger |
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| To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. |
Buddha |
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| You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. |
Buddha |
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| The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. |
Buddha |
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| We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. |
Buddha |
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| It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. |
Buddha |
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