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| Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| The spirit is the true self. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| While there's life, there's hope. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| No one can give you better advice than yourself. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| A home without books is a body without soul. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.... |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| No Sane man will dance. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| A friend is, as it were, a second self. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Never injure a friend, even in jest. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Nothing quite new is perfect. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| There is no place more delightful than home. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. |
Godfather, The |
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| Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. |
Godfather, The |
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| Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. |
Godfather, The |
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| Tessio It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. |
Godfather, The |
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| Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day. |
Godfather, The |
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| Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. |
Godfather, The |
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| Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you. |
Godfather, The |
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| Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today. |
Godfather, The |
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| No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. |
Archibald Wavell |
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| An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. |
Michael Korda |
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| Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. |
Michael Korda |
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| In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can. |
Michael Korda |
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| Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. |
Michael Korda |
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| Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. |
Michael Korda |
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| The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec. |
Marcus Dolengo |
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| Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. |
Tupac Shakur |
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| If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. |
Gail Sheehy |
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| If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. |
Gail Sheehy |
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| Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. |
Gail Sheehy |
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| As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties. |
Gail Sheehy |
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| When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.' |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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| A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. |
Mitch Ratliffe |
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| It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. |
Millard Fuller |
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| Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. |
Millard Fuller |
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| Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny Oh, well what's coming to you Tony Montana The world, Chico, and everything in it. |
Scarface |
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| Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me |
Scarface |
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| Tony Montana What you lookin' at You all a bunch of f***ing assholes. You know why You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f***ing fingers and say, That's the bad guy. So... what that make you Good You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through Better get outta his way |
Scarface |
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| Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. |
Scarface |
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| Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend |
Scarface |
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| Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. |
Scarface |
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| We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. |
Whitney Moore, Jr. |
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| A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The artist needs no religion beyond his work. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The love we give away is the only love we keep. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Life is just one damned thing after another. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| We are punished by our sins, not for them. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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| No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. |
Elbert Hubbard |
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