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| The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. |
Swedish Proverb |
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| It's good to shut up sometimes. |
Marcel Marceau |
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| I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. |
Marcel Marceau |
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| Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. |
Marcel Marceau |
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| To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. |
Marcel Marceau |
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| Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words |
Marcel Marceau |
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| I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. |
Marcel Marceau |
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| Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. |
Miguel de Unanimo |
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| As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. |
Joseph Farrell |
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| The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. |
Joseph Farrell |
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| If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. |
Joseph Farrell |
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| To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. |
Charles-Damian Boulogne |
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| I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing. |
Deacon Jones |
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| The joy that isn't shared dies young. |
Anne Sexton |
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| Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. |
Anne Sexton |
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| Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. |
Charles Baudelaire |
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| Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes. |
Swordfish |
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| Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection. |
Swordfish |
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| Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you. |
Swordfish |
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| Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl. |
Swordfish |
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| Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings. |
Swordfish |
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| Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down. |
Swordfish |
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| The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| What you can't get out of... Get into wholeheartedly. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. |
Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
John Wooden |
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| It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. |
John Wooden |
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| Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. |
John Wooden |
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| Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. |
John Wooden |
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| Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. |
John Wooden |
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| Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. |
John Wooden |
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| Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. |
John Wooden |
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| You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. |
John Wooden |
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| Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read. |
Computer Museum |
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| Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw. |
Computer Museum |
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| Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The government is us we are the government, you and I. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| All the resources we need are in the mind. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can' Then get busy and find out how to do it. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| No man is above the law and no man below it. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings. |
George Will |
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| This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. |
George Will |
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| The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. |
George Will |
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| In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) |
George Will |
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| We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. |
George Will |
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| The future has a way of arriving unannounced. |
George Will |
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| It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. |
George Will |
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| A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. |
George Will |
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| Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. |
George Will |
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