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| America is a mistake, a giant mistake. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. |
Osbert Sitwell |
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| Wear the old coat and buy the new book. |
Austin Phelps |
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| The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. |
Fidel Castro |
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| I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. |
Fidel Castro |
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| Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. |
Ayn Rand |
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| So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money |
Ayn Rand |
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| Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Live a life as a monument to your soul. |
Ayn Rand |
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| If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary. |
Ayn Rand |
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| When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. |
Ayn Rand |
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| America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. |
Ayn Rand |
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| The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. |
Ayn Rand |
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| A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. |
Ayn Rand |
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| The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. |
Ayn Rand |
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| The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. |
Ayn Rand |
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| I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. |
Ayn Rand |
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| It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. |
Ayn Rand |
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| The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Guilt is a rope that wears thin. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. |
Ayn Rand |
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| Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| A good front is half the battle in love or war. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. |
Kim Hubbard |
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| There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it |
Kim Hubbard |
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| Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. |
Robert Anthony |
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| The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. |
Robert Anthony |
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| Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. |
Robert Anthony |
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| If you are not leaning, no one will let you down. |
Robert Anthony |
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| Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. |
Tom Landry |
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| The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics. |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work. |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Ferris I do have a test today. that wasn't bull. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists They could be fasict anarcists. It still doesn't change the fact that i don't own a car. |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Ferris Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
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| Today is your day Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. |
Theodor Seuss Geisel |
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| Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. |
Anthony Burgess |
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| Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. |
Anthony Burgess |
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| We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. |
Anthony Burgess |
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| It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
Conan Doyle |
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| There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. |
Conan Doyle |
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| Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. |
Conan Doyle |
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| When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. |
Conan Doyle |
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| A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. |
Conan Doyle |
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| It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. |
Conan Doyle |
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| It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. |
Conan Doyle |
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| The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. |
Conan Doyle |
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| It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. |
Conan Doyle |
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| You see, but you do not observe. |
Conan Doyle |
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| ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. |
Conan Doyle |
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| There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. |
Conan Doyle |
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| The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. |
Gay Talese |
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| Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. |
Ford Maddox |
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| Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast. |
William Congreve |
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| Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. |
William Congreve |
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| Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. |
William Congreve |
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| Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long. |
William Congreve |
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| All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. |
William Congreve |
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| Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. |
William Congreve |
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| I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. |
William Congreve |
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| Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
William Congreve |
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| He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. |
William Congreve |
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| The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. |
Jimmy Breslin |
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| Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. |
Jimmy Breslin |
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| I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. |
Edith Cavell |
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| Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. |
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller |
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| A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. |
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller |
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| There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. |
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller |
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| Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. |
Duffy Daugherty |
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| When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. |
Duffy Daugherty |
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| Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. |
Joe Paterno |
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| The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. |
Joe Paterno |
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| Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. |
Joe Paterno |
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| Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself. |
Harvey Fierstein |
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| Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Those who wish to sing always find a song. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more |
Swedish Proverb |
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| What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. |
Swedish Proverb |
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