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| Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. |
Leo C. Rosten |
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| I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. |
Carry Nation |
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| Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. |
Colonel William Prescott |
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| These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. |
Sam Snead |
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| When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. |
Dick Houser |
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| The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. |
Flora Whittemore |
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| A will finds a way. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. |
Orison Swett Marden |
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| Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. |
Charles Luckman |
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| The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. |
Charles Luckman |
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| The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. |
Robert Frost |
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| Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
Robert Frost |
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| By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. |
Robert Frost |
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| I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. |
Robert Frost |
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| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
Robert Frost |
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| The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep. |
Robert Frost |
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| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. |
Robert Frost |
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| In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on. |
Robert Frost |
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| Poetry is what gets lost in translation. |
Robert Frost |
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| The best way out is always through. |
Robert Frost |
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| The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. |
Robert Frost |
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| Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. |
Robert Frost |
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| Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. |
Robert Frost |
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| I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. |
Robert Frost |
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| There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. |
Robert Frost |
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| Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. |
Robert Frost |
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| More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work. |
Robert Frost |
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| Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. |
Robert Frost |
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| Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. |
Robert Frost |
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| I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. |
Robert Frost |
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| The only way round is through. |
Robert Frost |
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| Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves. |
Robert Frost |
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| Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. |
Robert Frost |
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| Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. |
Robert Frost |
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| The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. |
Robert Frost |
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| A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. |
Robert Frost |
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| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. |
Robert Frost |
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| Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season. |
Robert Frost |
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| You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things. |
Robert Frost |
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| Anything more than the truth would be too much. |
Robert Frost |
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| The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. |
Robert Frost |
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| Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. |
Robert Frost |
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| Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with. |
Robert Frost |
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| You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. |
Robert Frost |
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| Hell is a half-filled auditorium. |
Robert Frost |
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| A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. |
Robert Frost |
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| The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. |
Robert Frost |
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| Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. |
Robert Frost |
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| I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. |
Robert Frost |
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| Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. |
Robert Frost |
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| You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. |
Robert Frost |
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| There's never a new fashion but it's old. |
Chaucer |
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| He was as fresh as is the month of May. |
Chaucer |
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| Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it. |
Georges Duhamel |
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| We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. |
Georges Duhamel |
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| I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. |
Georges Duhamel |
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| Fans don't boo nobodies. |
Reggie Jackson |
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| When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what' |
Sydney Harris |
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| Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. |
Sydney Harris |
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| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' |
Sydney Harris |
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| Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. |
Sydney Harris |
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| The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong. |
Sydney Harris |
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| There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. |
Sydney Harris |
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| An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. |
Sydney Harris |
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| It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. |
Sydney Harris |
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| If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems. |
Sydney Harris |
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| Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. |
Sydney Harris |
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| Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. |
Sydney Harris |
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| People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. |
Sydney Harris |
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| Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. |
Sydney Harris |
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| The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. |
Sydney Harris |
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| Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. |
Sydney Harris |
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| The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. |
Sydney Harris |
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| As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. |
Sydney Harris |
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| I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... |
Thornton Wilder |
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| Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. |
Thornton Wilder |
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| What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. |
Hume |
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| If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you. |
Matt Welsh |
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| One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do |
Maxim Gorky |
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| When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. |
Maxim Gorky |
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| The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money. |
Paul Erdman |
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| Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. |
Samuel Johnson |
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| Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. |
Samuel Johnson |
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