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| Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . . |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I cannot live without books. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Never spend your money before you have it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Health is worth more than learning. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. |
J. G. Gallimore |
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| The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go' |
E. M. Kelly |
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| I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Solitude is the playfield of Satan. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
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| My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
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| All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.' |
Mickey Lolich |
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| Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. |
Luigi Barzini |
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| They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. |
Luigi Barzini |
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| Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. |
Samuel Butler |
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| To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. |
Samuel Butler |
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| The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. |
Samuel Butler |
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| For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Life is not an exact science, it is an art. |
Samuel Butler |
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| You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. |
Samuel Butler |
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| God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is |
Samuel Butler |
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| It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. |
Samuel Butler |
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| God cannot alter the past, but historians can. |
Samuel Butler |
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| What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more. |
Samuel Butler |
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| The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. |
Samuel Butler |
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| I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. |
Samuel Butler |
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| To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. |
Samuel Butler |
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| A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. |
Samuel Butler |
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| It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. |
Samuel Butler |
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| He that is down can fall no lower. |
Samuel Butler |
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| It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. |
Samuel Butler |
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| The course of true anything does not run smooth. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. |
Samuel Butler |
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| There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule. |
Samuel Butler |
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| The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. |
Samuel Butler |
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| An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books. |
Samuel Butler |
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| If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. |
Samuel Butler |
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| I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. |
Samuel Butler |
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| When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. |
Samuel Butler |
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| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. |
Samuel Butler |
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| We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. |
Martha Grimes |
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| Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| Character is power. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. |
Booker T. Washington |
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| The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. |
William Carlos Williams |
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| What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise |
William Carlos Williams |
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| If they give you lined paper, write the other way. |
William Carlos Williams |
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| In summer, the song sings itself. |
William Carlos Williams |
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| The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*. |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. |
Theodore Hesburgh |
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| The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| People don't start wars, governments do. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in |
Ronald Reagan |
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| The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' |
Ronald Reagan |
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| If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again. |
Ronald Reagan |
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| We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya) |
Ronald Reagan |
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| There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. |
Ronald Reagan |
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