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| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. |
Eugene Ionesco |
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| It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. |
Eugene Ionesco |
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| Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. |
Eugene Ionesco |
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| The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. |
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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| Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives. |
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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| History is full of surprises. |
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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| Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. |
Stephen Covey |
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| Live out of your imagination, not your history. |
Stephen Covey |
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| Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. |
Stephen Covey |
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| The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. |
Stephen Covey |
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| Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. |
Stephen Covey |
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| While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. |
Stephen Covey |
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| I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. |
Stephen Covey |
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| If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. |
Stephen Covey |
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| Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. |
Stephen Covey |
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| Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. |
Ralph W. Sockman |
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| Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. |
Ralph W. Sockman |
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| The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. |
Ralph W. Sockman |
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| Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. |
Ralph W. Sockman |
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| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. |
Walt Disney |
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| Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. |
Walt Disney |
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| If you can dream it, you can do it. |
Walt Disney |
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| All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them. |
Walt Disney |
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| All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. |
Walt Disney |
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| Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. |
Walt Disney |
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| I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. |
Walt Disney |
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| Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| .....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| The longest journey is the journey inward. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. |
Dag Hammarskjld |
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| One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. |
A. C. Benson |
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| I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. |
A. C. Benson |
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| As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. |
A. C. Benson |
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| People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. |
A. C. Benson |
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| All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. |
A. C. Benson |
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| Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. |
J. Russel Lynes |
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| If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. |
J. Russel Lynes |
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| The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. |
J. Russel Lynes |
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| It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail. |
David Merrick |
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| If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. |
Robert X Cringely |
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| The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. |
Vi Putnam |
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| Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. |
Jesse Jackson |
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| Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. |
George Burns |
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| No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. |
George Burns |
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| I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. |
George Burns |
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| I get a standing ovation jaust standing. |
George Burns |
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| I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. |
George Burns |
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| Nice to be here At my age it's nice to be anywhere. |
George Burns |
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| Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. |
George Burns |
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| I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. |
George Burns |
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| Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. |
George Burns |
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| I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. |
George Burns |
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| Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out -- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. |
George Burns |
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| Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. |
George Burns |
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| Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. |
George Burns |
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| I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. |
George Burns |
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| Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. |
George Burns |
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| If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. |
Rotarian |
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| Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. |
Ellen Glasgow |
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| A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. |
Rupert Brooke |
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| Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. |
Rupert Brooke |
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| Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined.... |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| Satire is focused bitterness. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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