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| Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. |
Frank Crane |
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| Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. |
Frank Crane |
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| You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. |
Frank Crane |
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| For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. |
Frantz Fanos |
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| Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars |
Louis Untermeyer |
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| What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. |
Dave Barry |
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| Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. |
Dave Barry |
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| Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. |
Dave Barry |
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| In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home. |
Dave Barry |
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| I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. |
Dave Barry |
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| You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that' |
Dave Barry |
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| If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. |
Dave Barry |
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| Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. |
Dave Barry |
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| I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. |
Dave Barry |
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| The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. |
Dave Barry |
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| I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. |
Dave Barry |
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| You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. |
Dave Barry |
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| Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. |
Dave Barry |
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| The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. |
Dave Barry |
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| Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. |
Dave Barry |
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| Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. |
Dave Barry |
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| Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. |
Dave Barry |
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| We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. |
William Reece Smith, Jr. |
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| For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. |
Neil Gershenfeld |
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| Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| A friend is what the heart needs all the time. |
Henry Van Dyke |
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| One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| The future is the past returning through another gate. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Make your life a mission - not an intermission. |
Arnold Glasgow |
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| Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. |
Charles Du Bos |
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| The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. |
Charles Du Bos |
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| One can acquire everything in solitude except character. |
Stendhal |
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| A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. |
Stendhal |
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| What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| An improper mind is a perpetual feast. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Wit is the lowest form of humor. |
Alexander Pope |
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| To err is human to forgive, divine. |
Alexander Pope |
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| In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. |
Alexander Pope |
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| In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. |
Alexander Pope |
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| It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Fools admire, but men of sense approve. |
Alexander Pope |
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| A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
Alexander Pope |
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| He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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