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| Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. |
Euripides |
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| Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. |
Euripides |
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| I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. |
Euripides |
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| Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
Euripides |
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| The good and the wise lead quiet lives. |
Euripides |
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| Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world |
Euripides |
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| Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves. |
Euripides |
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| For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it. |
Euripides |
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| Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. |
Euripides |
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| I have found power in the mysteries of thought. |
Euripides |
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| Your very silence shows you agree. |
Euripides |
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| Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. |
Euripides |
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| Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. |
Euripides |
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| Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. |
Euripides |
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| Do not consider painful what is good for you. |
Euripides |
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| A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. |
Euripides |
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| A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful. |
Euripides |
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| Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. |
Euripides |
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| I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. |
Euripides |
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| The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. |
Euripides |
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| Time cancels young pain. |
Euripides |
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| Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. |
Euripides |
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| Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. |
Euripides |
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| A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. |
Euripides |
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| In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. |
Euripides |
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| Leave no stone unturned. |
Euripides |
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| There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience. |
Euripides |
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| My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. |
Euripides |
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| I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. |
Euripides |
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| In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. |
Euripides |
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| Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. |
Euripides |
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| You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you. |
Euripides |
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| When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. |
Euripides |
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| Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. |
Euripides |
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| Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. |
Euripides |
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| The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. |
Euripides |
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| I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. |
Euripides |
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| What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. |
Euripides |
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| There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. |
Euripides |
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| The wisest men follow their own direction. |
Euripides |
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| When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. |
Euripides |
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| Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. |
Euripides |
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| As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. |
Arnold J. Toynbee |
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| Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit. |
Coming to America |
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| King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea. |
Coming to America |
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| Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. |
Coming to America |
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| Tough girl I'm almost single, my husband's on death row. |
Coming to America |
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| Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs. |
Coming to America |
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| Rev. Brown If lovin' the lord is wrong, I don't want to be right. |
Coming to America |
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| Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit. |
Coming to America |
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| Cleo McDowell Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds. |
Coming to America |
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| Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. |
Rick Reilly |
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| Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| When you come to a road block, take a detour. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| Give yourself something to work toward--constantly. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| People fail forward to success. |
Mary Kay Ash |
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| A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. |
Alec Waugh |
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| Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field |
Jim Boulton |
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| You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. |
Ziggy |
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| For many are called, but few are chosen. |
Matthew 2214 |
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| Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
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| Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. |
J. B. Yeats |
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| Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. |
J. B. Yeats |
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| God is in the details. |
Mies van der Rohe |
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| I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. |
Dudley Field Malone |
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| A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. |
U. S. Constitution |
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| The best proof of love is trust. |
Joyce Brothers |
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| The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have. |
Joyce Brothers |
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| No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. |
Joyce Brothers |
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| Music is the soul of language. |
Max Heindel |
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| Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. |
Russell Baker |
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| I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. |
Russell Baker |
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| Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. |
Russell Baker |
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| Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. |
Russell Baker |
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| People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. |
Russell Baker |
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| The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. |
Russell Baker |
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| Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. |
Russell Baker |
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| The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. |
Russell Baker |
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