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| Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. |
Horace |
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| Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. |
Horace |
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| The covetous man is ever in want. |
Horace |
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| He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin |
Horace |
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| The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. |
Horace |
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| There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. |
Horace |
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| He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. |
Horace |
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| Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. |
Horace |
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| It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. |
Horace |
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| In adversity remember to keep an even mind. |
Horace |
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| Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. |
Horace |
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| To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. |
Horace |
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| Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment. |
Horace |
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| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. |
Horace |
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| Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. |
Horace |
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| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. |
Horace |
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| There is measure in all things. |
Horace |
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| We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. |
Horace |
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| With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. |
Horace |
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| Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. |
Christopher Columbus |
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| Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. |
Amelia Earhart |
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| Adventure is worthwhile in itself. |
Amelia Earhart |
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| Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear. |
Amelia Earhart |
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| Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. |
Amelia Earhart |
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| Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others. |
Leib Lazarow |
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| What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here. |
Julie Cochrane |
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| The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. |
Willem de Kooning |
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| Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. |
Betty Smith |
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| Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract -- teach him to deduct. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Food is an important part of a balanced diet. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| My favorite animal is steak. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Humility is no substitute for a good personality. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. |
Fran Lebowitz |
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| Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. |
Barry Goldwater |
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| None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government. |
Barry Goldwater |
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| I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone. |
Barry Goldwater |
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| To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. |
Barry Goldwater |
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| Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure |
J. Bronowski |
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| Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. |
Ray Knight |
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| It ain't braggin' if you can back it up. |
Dizzy Dean |
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| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. |
Paul Valery |
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| La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. |
Paul Valery |
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| Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder. |
Paul Valery |
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| God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. |
Paul Valery |
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| A poem is never finished, only abandoned. |
Paul Valery |
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| The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. |
Paul Valery |
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| Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. |
Paul Valery |
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| That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. |
Paul Valery |
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| Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. |
Paul Valery |
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| A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. |
Paul Valery |
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| The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. |
Paul Valery |
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| That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. |
Paul Valery |
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| Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. |
Paul Valery |
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| Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. |
Paul Valery |
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| What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. |
Paul Valery |
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| We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
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| I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
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| Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles. |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin... |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention. |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| Lloyd What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her. |
Dumb & Dumber |
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| The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack. |
Jack Trice |
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| Bluntness is a virtue. |
Allison Ling |
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| Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. |
John Dickinson |
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| The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait. |
Lamentations 325 |
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| It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully. |
Doug Vargas |
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| The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. |
Bede Jarrett |
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| The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. |
Bede Jarrett |
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| Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| If I know what love is, it is because of you. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| Love of God is not always the same as love of good. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| ...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet. |
Hermann Hesse |
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| Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. |
Hermann Hesse |
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