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| Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every artist was first an amateur. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| As soon as there is life there is danger. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. |
Ellen Stugis Hooper |
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| Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. |
Jules de Gautier |
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| I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. |
Scott Adams |
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| There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time. |
Scott Adams |
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| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
Scott Adams |
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| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. |
Scott Adams |
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| I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. |
Scott Adams |
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| Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. |
Scott Adams |
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| No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. |
Scott Adams |
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| We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. |
Scott Adams |
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| We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. |
Scott Adams |
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| Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. |
Scott Adams |
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| The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management. |
Scott Adams |
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| The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. |
Scott Adams |
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| Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. |
Scott Adams |
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| You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. |
Scott Adams |
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| If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions |
Scott Adams |
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| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. |
Josh Billings |
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| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. |
Josh Billings |
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| Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. |
Josh Billings |
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| There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. |
Josh Billings |
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| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
Josh Billings |
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| I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. |
Josh Billings |
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| Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. |
Josh Billings |
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| Knowledge is like money the more he gets, the more he craves. |
Josh Billings |
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| Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. |
Josh Billings |
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| When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool. |
Josh Billings |
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| It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so. |
Josh Billings |
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| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. |
Josh Billings |
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| A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. |
Josh Billings |
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| Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. |
Josh Billings |
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| Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope. |
Josh Billings |
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| We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. |
Josh Billings |
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| There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. |
Josh Billings |
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| Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. |
Josh Billings |
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| Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. |
Josh Billings |
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| It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. |
Josh Billings |
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| After enlightenment, the laundry. |
Josh Billings |
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| It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. |
Josh Billings |
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| What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do. |
Josh Billings |
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| It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. |
Josh Billings |
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| Good nonsense is good sense in disguise. |
Josh Billings |
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| The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. |
Josh Billings |
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| The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. |
Josh Billings |
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| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. |
Josh Billings |
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| Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner. |
Josh Billings |
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| I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. |
Josh Billings |
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| The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. |
Josh Billings |
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| The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. |
Josh Billings |
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| One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. |
Josh Billings |
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| Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to. |
Josh Billings |
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| Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. |
Josh Billings |
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| I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| You lose it if you talk about it. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Never mistake motion for action. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Courage is grace under pressure. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Time is the least thing we have. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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| The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits. |
Ernest Hemingway |
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