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| He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones. |
English Proverb |
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| Advice is least heeded when most needed. |
English Proverb |
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| In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish. |
English Proverb |
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| Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. |
English Proverb |
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| In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. |
English Proverb |
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| A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. |
English Proverb |
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| Spread the table and contention will cease. |
English Proverb |
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| A full cup must be carried steadily. |
English Proverb |
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| Never fall out with your bread and butter. |
English Proverb |
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| Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. |
English Proverb |
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| First deserve, and then desire. |
English Proverb |
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| Don't fall before you're pushed. |
English Proverb |
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| Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. |
English Proverb |
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| Use soft words and hard arguments. |
English Proverb |
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| Danger and delight grow on one stalk. |
English Proverb |
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| When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. |
English Proverb |
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| Every path has its puddle. |
English Proverb |
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| We are usually the best men when in the worst health. |
English Proverb |
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| Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. |
English Proverb |
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| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. |
Galileo Galilei |
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| You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself. |
Galileo Galilei |
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| It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve |
Galileo Galilei |
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| All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. |
Galileo Galilei |
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| I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. |
Galileo Galilei |
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| It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. |
Archie Griffin |
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| The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. |
Adolf Hitler |
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| The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. |
Adolf Hitler |
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| Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide |
Adolf Hitler |
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| ...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. |
Adolf Hitler |
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| What luck for rulers that men do not think. |
Adolf Hitler |
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| The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. |
Adolf Hitler |
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| Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. |
Leo Buscaglia |
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| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
Alan Kay |
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| The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. |
Doug Larson |
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| If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. |
Doug Larson |
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| An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true. |
Doug Larson |
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| Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. |
Doug Larson |
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| There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number. |
Doug Larson |
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| If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. |
Doug Larson |
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| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. |
Doug Larson |
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| The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. |
Doug Larson |
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| A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. |
Doug Larson |
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| The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. |
Doug Larson |
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| Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. |
Doug Larson |
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| A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. |
Doug Larson |
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| More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. |
Doug Larson |
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| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. |
Doug Larson |
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| Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. |
Doug Larson |
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| The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. |
Doug Larson |
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| Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. |
Doug Larson |
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| If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. |
Doug Larson |
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| What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. |
Doug Larson |
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| In war there is no substitute for victory. |
Douglas MacArthur |
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| We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. |
Douglas MacArthur |
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| Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. |
Douglas MacArthur |
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| I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. |
Douglas MacArthur |
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| There is no security on earth there is only opportunity. |
Douglas MacArthur |
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| Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. |
Laura Swenson |
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| For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. |
Laura Swenson |
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| There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| A good laugh is sunshine in a house. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| I would rather make my name than inherit it. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
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| Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. |
Javan |
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| I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. |
Javan |
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| Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. |
Franz Werfel |
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| The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. |
Giosu, Borsi |
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| All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. |
Ernest Dimnet |
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| Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. |
Ernest Dimnet |
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| Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places. |
Ernest Dimnet |
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| Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual--and the soul of a people. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. |
Bertrand Russell |
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| Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. |
Bertrand Russell |
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