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| What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value. |
Thomas Paine |
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| When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. |
Thomas Paine |
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| The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. |
Thomas Paine |
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| A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. |
Thomas Paine |
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| The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. |
Thomas Paine |
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| Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. |
Thomas Paine |
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| Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. |
Thomas Paine |
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| URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. |
Chris Clark |
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| Ray D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds |
Jerry Maguire |
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| Jerry Show me the money |
Jerry Maguire |
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| Jerry I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens. |
Jerry Maguire |
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| Jerry I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok |
Jerry Maguire |
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| Rod It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready Just checking to make sure you're ready here it is - show me the money. OHHH SHOW ME THE MONEY Doesn't it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry Say it with me one time brother |
Jerry Maguire |
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| Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me. |
Jerry Maguire |
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| The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. |
Keith Bostic |
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| Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. |
Roger Babson |
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| It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. |
Roger Babson |
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| We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. |
Madame Swetchine |
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| Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. |
Madame Swetchine |
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| I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. |
Wayne Gretzky |
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| You miss 100 of the shots you never take. |
Wayne Gretzky |
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| I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. |
Wayne Gretzky |
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| Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. |
Albert Camus |
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| Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. |
Albert Camus |
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| In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. |
Albert Camus |
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| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. |
Albert Camus |
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| The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. |
Albert Camus |
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| You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. |
Albert Camus |
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| The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. |
Albert Camus |
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| Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. |
Albert Camus |
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| I love my country too much to be a nationalist. |
Albert Camus |
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| It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. |
Albert Camus |
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| History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. |
Albert Camus |
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| An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. |
Albert Camus |
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| All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. |
Albert Camus |
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| We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. |
Albert Camus |
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| 'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. |
Albert Camus |
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| A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. |
Albert Camus |
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| I know of only one duty, and that is to love. |
Albert Camus |
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| Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. |
Albert Camus |
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| What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. |
Albert Camus |
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| What is a rebel A man who says no. |
Albert Camus |
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| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. |
Albert Camus |
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| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. |
Albert Camus |
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| Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. |
Albert Camus |
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| I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers. |
Albert Camus |
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| The truth, as the light, makes blind. |
Albert Camus |
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| An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. |
Albert Camus |
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| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. |
Albert Camus |
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| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. |
Albert Camus |
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| Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. |
Albert Camus |
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| Integrity has no need of rules. |
Albert Camus |
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| Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. |
Albert Camus |
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| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. |
Albert Camus |
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| It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature. |
Albert Camus |
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| Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. |
Albert Camus |
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| The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism. |
Albert Camus |
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| How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. |
Albert Camus |
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| Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. |
Albert Camus |
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| Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. |
Albert Camus |
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| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. |
Albert Camus |
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| Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. |
Albert Camus |
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| You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. |
Albert Camus |
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| If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. |
Albert Camus |
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| We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. |
Albert Camus |
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| There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
Albert Camus |
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| He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. |
Albert Camus |
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| To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. |
Stephen Hawking |
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| I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. |
Stephen Hawking |
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| We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. |
Stephen Hawking |
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| An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Common sense is the best sense I know of. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. |
Lord Chesterfield |
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| Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. |
Anna Freud |
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| I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. |
Anna Freud |
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| The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. |
Eugene Debs |
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| We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. |
Sidney Poitier |
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| Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. |
Rod Kanehl |
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| Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. |
African Proverb |
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| Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. |
African Proverb |
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| Where there is no shame, there is no honor. |
African Proverb |
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| Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse. |
African Proverb |
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| It takes a village to raise a child. |
African Proverb |
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| When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. |
African Proverb |
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| Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. |
African Proverb |
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| When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers. |
African Proverb |
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| When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot. |
African Proverb |
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| If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. |
African Proverb |
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| Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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