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| Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility. |
Louise Suggs |
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| Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. |
Jonathan Kozol |
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| In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters. |
Paul Gauguin |
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| Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
Paul Gauguin |
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| Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. |
Paul Gauguin |
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| I shut my eyes in order to see. |
Paul Gauguin |
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| One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. |
Josef Stalin |
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| Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. |
Josef Stalin |
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| If you can't return a favor, pass it on. |
Louise Brown |
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| In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. |
J. W. Fulbright |
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| The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. |
J. W. Fulbright |
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| Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. |
Ambrose Redmoon |
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| Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. |
Sir Laurence Olivier |
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| Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. |
Laurence J. Peter |
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| I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. |
Joyce Kilmer |
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| My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. |
Hank Aaron |
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| It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. |
Hank Aaron |
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| Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Everything you can imagine is real. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. |
Pablo Picasso |
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| The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. |
Sebastian R. N. Chamfort |
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| Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. |
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire |
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| He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. |
Michel de Montaigne |
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| No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. |
Minor White |
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| I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands. |
Darius Ogden Mills |
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| Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. |
John MacNaughton |
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| I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. |
Joe E. Louis |
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| I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. |
Joe E. Louis |
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| Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished if you're alive, it isn't. |
Richard Bach |
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| You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. |
Richard Bach |
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| Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. |
Richard Bach |
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| In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. |
Richard Bach |
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| Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. |
Richard Bach |
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| As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. |
Richard Bach |
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