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Edward Abbey (10)
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
233 quotes relating to being alone
Lascelles Abercrombie (3)
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
249 views about aging
Ralph Abernathy (2)
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
175 more quotes about change
Dean Acheson (4)
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
175 more quotes about change
Samuel Adams (2)
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
197 wisdom & wit regarding business
John Adams (18)
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
249 thoughts about aging
Henry Adams (22)
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
233 more quotes regarding being alone
James Truslow Adams (4)
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
249 more sayings about aging
John Quincy Adams (7)
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Franklin P. Adams (8)
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
249 thoughts about aging
Abigail Adams (5)
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
210 quotes about education
Ansel Adams (13)
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
424 quotes about art
Joey Adams (7)
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
197 quotes relating to business
Jane Addams (2)
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
44 thoughts relating to attitudes
Joseph Addison (24)
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
249 quotes regarding aging
George Ade (4)
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
180 quotes relating to marriage
Felix Adler (4)
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
240 quotes relating to faith
Stella Adler (2)
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
424 quotes relating to art
Alfred Adler (9)
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
165 more sayings regarding the future
Theodor Adorno (26)
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
249 quotes about aging
Spiro T. Agnew (3)
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
184 more quotes about government
Shmuel Y. Agnon (2)
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
78 other views about food
Howard Aiken (2)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
197 wisdom & wit about business
Alvin Ailey (3)
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
151 quotes about music
Anna Akhmatova (2)
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
161 other views about courage
Josef Albers (3)
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
419 other sayings about nature
Louisa May Alcott (10)
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
240 wisdom & wit about faith
Amos Bronson Alcott (13)
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
249 other thoughts about aging
Sholom Aleichem (3)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
426 sayings regarding life
Alexander Alekhine (3)
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
218 more quotes regarding beauty
Samuel Alexander (3)
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
174 more wisdom & wit about experience
Vittorio Alfieri (3)
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
161 more quotes about courage
Horatio Alger (2)
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
345 quotes regarding happiness
Nelson Algren (2)
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
41 thoughts about the law
Dante Alighieri (13)
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
424 more thoughts about art
James Allen (12)
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
161 more quotes regarding courage
James Lane Allen (2)
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
142 other sayings regarding failure
Gracie Allen (3)
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
87 wisdom & wit about family
Steve Allen (2)
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
80 other quotes about humor
Fred Allen (13)
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
197 sayings about business
George Allen, Sr. (4)
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
364 sayings about best
Luther Allison (2)
I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
32 quotes about positive
B. R. Ambedkar (6)
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
43 quotes about equality
William Ames (2)
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
240 quotes regarding faith
Henri Frederic Amiel (24)
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Hans Christian Andersen (3)
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
199 sayings about freedom
Marian Anderson (3)
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
136 quotes about dreams
Ivo Andric (2)
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
277 more views regarding fear
Jean Anouilh (14)
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
424 thoughts relating to art
Mary Antin (2)
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
24 thoughts about birthday
Antisthenes (5)
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
39 more quotes about jealousy
Minna Antrim (4)
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
247 quotes regarding religion
Thomas Aquinas (20)
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
161 wisdom & wit relating to courage
Hannah Arendt (9)
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
249 quotes about aging
Pietro Aretino (2)
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
179 views about friendship
Aristotle (75)
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
249 quotes regarding aging
Richard Armour (3)
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
218 more sayings about beauty
Matthew Arnold (8)
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
249 quotes regarding aging
Roger Ascham (6)
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
174 quotes about experience
Arthur Ashe (10)
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
44 quotes regarding attitudes
Isaac Asimov (16)
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
197 sayings regarding business
Mary Astell (7)
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
364 sayings regarding best
Nancy Astor (3)
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
175 wisdom & wit about change
John James Audubon (3)
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
321 more quotes about death
Jane Austen (21)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
364 other quotes regarding best
Alfred Austin (3)
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
29 sayings relating to gardening
Charles Babbage (3)
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
262 other sayings relating to knowledge
Irving Babbitt (5)
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
240 more wisdom & wit relating to faith
Roger Babson (3)
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
142 quotes regarding failure
Johann Sebastian Bach (2)
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
402 other thoughts regarding God
Gaston Bachelard (5)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
218 quotes about beauty
Francis Bacon (67)
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
249 quotes about aging
John Bacon (2)
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
37 wisdom & wit about pets
Roger Bacon (2)
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
174 quotes about experience
Robert Baden-Powell (3)
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
345 quotes relating to happiness
Arthur Baer (2)
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
19 other quotes about diets
Walter Bagehot (7)
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
321 views about death
Enid Bagnold (2)
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
38 quotes regarding fatherhood
Liberty Hyde Bailey (6)
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
233 views regarding being alone
Abu Bakr (21)
Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
58 quotes regarding anger
Mikhail Bakunin (6)
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
364 thoughts about best
James Baldwin (3)
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
218 more quotes about beauty
Stanley Baldwin (4)
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
240 wisdom & wit about faith
Faith Baldwin (2)
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
40 other quotes regarding communication
Arthur Balfour (3)
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
424 thoughts regarding art
Lucille Ball (11)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
249 views about aging
Hosea Ballou (8)
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
249 quotes about aging
Toni Cade Bambara (2)
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
142 quotes relating to failure
George Bancroft (3)
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
402 other sayings about God
Tallulah Bankhead (7)
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
30 other wisdom & wit about cars
Benjamin Banneker (3)
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
40 views relating to communication
Anna Letitia Barbauld (3)
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
233 more views about being alone
William Barclay (2)
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
423 quotes about greatness
Bob Barr (2)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
139 quotes regarding intelligence
Luis Barragan (5)
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
62 other quotes about architecture
James M. Barrie (13)
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
364 views relating to best
J. M. Barrie (2)
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
43 more thoughts regarding equality
John Barrymore (12)
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.
233 views about being alone
Karl Barth (6)
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
233 other thoughts regarding being alone
Roland Barthes (2)
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
262 quotes about knowledge
Clara Barton (3)
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
197 views about business
Bernard Baruch (12)
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
249 more quotes about aging
Frederic Bastiat (3)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
184 views about government
Charles Baudelaire (25)
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
424 views about art
Anne Baxter (3)
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
364 other sayings relating to best
Pierre Beaumarchais (3)
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
277 more views about fear
Francis Beaumont (3)
Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
240 other wisdom & wit about faith
Samuel Beckett (4)
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
197 wisdom & wit about business
Henry Ward Beecher (58)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
424 wisdom & wit about art
Max Beerbohm (10)
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
424 quotes relating to art
Brendan Behan (4)
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
321 sayings about death
Aphra Behn (5)
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Alexander Graham Bell (3)
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
238 other sayings about success
Hilaire Belloc (6)
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
233 quotes about being alone
Eleanor Robson Belmont (2)
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
30 other quotes about cars
David Ben-Gurion (2)
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
161 quotes about courage
Robert Benchley (10)
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
321 quotes regarding death
Julien Benda (2)
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
277 quotes regarding fear
Ruth Benedict (3)
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
156 quotes about strength
Walter Benjamin (7)
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
424 thoughts regarding art
Arnold Bennett (3)
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
175 other views relating to change
William Bennett (2)
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
62 more thoughts relating to architecture
Jack Benny (4)
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
249 views relating to aging
A. C. Benson (3)
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
249 quotes regarding aging
Jeremy Bentham (7)
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Bernard Berenson (2)
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
218 thoughts about beauty
Jose Bergamin (5)
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.
43 more quotes about forgiveness
Ingrid Bergman (5)
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
233 other quotes relating to being alone
Henri Bergson (3)
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
175 other quotes relating to change
George Berkeley (3)
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
233 wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Irving Berlin (2)
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
426 sayings about life
Hector Berlioz (3)
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
142 thoughts about failure
Claude Bernard (7)
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
240 other sayings regarding faith
William Bernbach (5)
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
424 more thoughts relating to art
Sarah Bernhardt (6)
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
58 more quotes regarding anger
Leonard Bernstein (5)
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
40 more wisdom & wit about communication
Annie Besant (2)
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
174 views about experience
Mary McLeod Bethune (3)
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
240 other quotes about faith
Aneurin Bevan (11)
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
197 quotes about business
Vinoba Bhave (2)
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
24 views regarding fitness
Steven Biko (2)
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
44 more wisdom & wit about attitudes
Buffalo Bill (7)
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
38 other sayings relating to fatherhood
Josh Billings (42)
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
249 other wisdom & wit about aging
Augustine Birrell (3)
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
179 other quotes about friendship
Jim Bishop (3)
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
249 views regarding aging
William Blake (32)
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
424 other quotes relating to art
H. P. Blavatsky (2)
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
419 more quotes regarding nature
William J. H. Boetcker (4)
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
161 thoughts regarding courage
Boethius (3)
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Niels Bohr (9)
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
364 views about best
Erma Bombeck (33)
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
24 thoughts about birthday
Edward Bond (3)
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
247 wisdom & wit regarding religion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (7)
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
402 more thoughts regarding God
Sonny Bono (2)
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
41 quotes about the law
Corrie Ten Boom (7)
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
277 other thoughts relating to fear
Daniel Boone (3)
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
321 other quotes about death
Victor Borge (2)
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
38 quotes relating to fatherhood
Hal Borland (3)
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
419 thoughts regarding nature
Ludwig Borne (2)
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
425 wisdom & wit about truth
George Borrow (2)
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
45 quotes relating to patriotism
Randolph Bourne (2)
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
174 quotes about experience
Elizabeth Bowen (10)
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
233 other thoughts relating to being alone
Omar N. Bradley (5)
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
321 other quotes about death
F. H. Bradley (2)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
345 views about happiness
David Brainerd (4)
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
35 more views about design
Louis D. Brandeis (7)
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
174 quotes regarding experience
Georges Braque (2)
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
231 other quotes regarding poetry
Bertolt Brecht (14)
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
175 thoughts relating to change
Gerald Brenan (3)
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
180 other thoughts regarding marriage
Joseph Brodsky (8)
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
44 views about attitudes
Jacob Bronowski (6)
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
233 quotes about being alone
Anne Bronte (2)
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
419 other quotes about nature
Charlotte Bronte (5)
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
321 more quotes regarding death
Rupert Brooke (3)
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
15 views about being cool
Van Wyck Brooks (2)
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
161 quotes regarding courage
Gwendolyn Brooks (2)
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
424 quotes regarding art
Phillips Brooks (7)
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
423 sayings about greatness
James Broughton (12)
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
249 sayings regarding aging
David R. Brower (2)
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
25 sayings about environmental
John Mason Brown (2)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
345 other sayings regarding happiness
Thomas Browne (8)
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
233 more views regarding being alone
Robert Browning (22)
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
249 quotes about aging
Anatole Broyard (2)
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
231 more views about poetry
Giordano Bruno (2)
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
277 quotes about fear
William Jennings Bryan (5)
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
210 quotes about education
William C. Bryant (5)
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
218 quotes about beauty
Georg Buchner (6)
I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.
161 other sayings about courage
Pearl S. Buck (18)
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
233 other wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Eustace Budgell (2)
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
179 more thoughts about friendship
Charles Bukowski (5)
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
233 other quotes about being alone
Thomas Bulfinch (2)
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
345 other wisdom & wit regarding happiness
Sitting Bull (2)
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
426 more quotes about life
John Bunyan (2)
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
161 quotes about courage
Luther Burbank (6)
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
25 quotes about environmental
Anthony Burgess (2)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Edmund Burke (37)
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
249 quotes regarding aging
Leo Burnett (2)
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
321 other wisdom & wit about death
Daniel Burnham (2)
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
62 quotes about architecture
John Burroughs (17)
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
233 thoughts regarding being alone
William S. Burroughs (9)
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
175 other quotes about change
Robert Burton (4)
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
240 quotes relating to faith
Joseph Butler (2)
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
78 other wisdom & wit about food
Samuel Butler (68)
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
62 more quotes about architecture
Smedley Butler (2)
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
131 thoughts about home
Nicholas M. Butler (4)
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
364 quotes about best
Charlie Byrd (2)
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
35 wisdom & wit relating to design
Lord Byron (36)
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
233 sayings relating to being alone
Herb Caen (2)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
202 more thoughts about society
John Cage (4)
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
197 more wisdom & wit regarding business
Taylor Caldwell (10)
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
321 thoughts about death
Cab Calloway (2)
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
345 wisdom & wit relating to happiness
Jeanne Calment (3)
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
321 more thoughts about death
John Calvin (7)
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
240 other views regarding faith
John Cameron (6)
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
91 more sayings about health
Joseph Campbell (18)
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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Alastair Campbell (5)
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
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Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Leonardo da Vinci (27)
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Michel de Montaigne (32)
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Charles de Montesquieu (14)
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Madame de Stael (3)
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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Alexis de Tocqueville (19)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Miguel de Unamuno (12)
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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Lope de Vega (2)
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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Thomas Dekker (3)
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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John Dewey (9)
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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Emily Dickinson (26)
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Benjamin Disraeli (75)
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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John Donne (10)
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (10)
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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William O. Douglas (6)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
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Norman Douglas (6)
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (14)
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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Theodore Dreiser (3)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Henry Drummond (4)
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
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John Dryden (17)
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Patrick Duffy (2)
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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Georges Duhamel (2)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
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John Foster Dulles (2)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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Will Durant (25)
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Jimmy Durante (2)
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
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Marguerite Duras (4)
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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Albrecht Durer (4)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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Lawrence Durrell (7)
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt (17)
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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James Dyson (22)
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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Charles Eames (5)
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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Max Eastman (7)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Charles Eastman (5)
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
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Meister Eckhart (11)
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
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Mary Baker Eddy (8)
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
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Thomas A. Edison (23)
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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Charles Edison (2)
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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Jonathan Edwards (3)
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Monica Edwards (2)
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
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Albert Einstein (105)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (33)
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (2)
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.
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T. S. Eliot (23)
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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George Eliot (52)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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Duke Ellington (6)
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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Jim Elliot (5)
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
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Havelock Ellis (16)
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Ralph Ellison (2)
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Evan Esar (6)
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Richard L. Evans (3)
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
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Edward Everett (2)
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Medgar Evers (2)
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
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Clifton Paul Fadiman (3)
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
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Michael Faraday (2)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
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William Feather (22)
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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Federico Fellini (4)
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Francois Fenelon (3)
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
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Richard P. Feynman (3)
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Sarah Fielding (2)
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
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W. C. Fields (24)
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Harvey S. Firestone (6)
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
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Ernst Fischer (2)
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
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M. F. K. Fisher (2)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (14)
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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Robert Fitzgerald (2)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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Gustave Flaubert (30)
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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George Foreman (2)
I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
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A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.
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Felix Frankfurter (6)
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Benjamin Franklin (96)
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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Anna Freud (3)
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
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Charles Frohman (2)
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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Erich Fromm (16)
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Robert Frost (50)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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James Anthony Froude (7)
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
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Du Fu (2)
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
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Galileo Galilei (7)
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Mahatma Gandhi (100)
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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Indira Gandhi (5)
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Greta Garbo (4)
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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Stephen Gardiner (13)
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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William Lloyd Garrison (4)
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (4)
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (3)
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
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John Gay (2)
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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Marvin Gaye (4)
Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
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Martha Gellhorn (2)
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti (2)
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Khalil Gibran (56)
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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Lillian Gish (2)
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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Jackie Gleason (2)
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Emma Goldman (10)
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Barry Goldwater (9)
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Samuel Goldwyn (16)
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
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Antonio Gramsci (2)
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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Ulysses S. Grant (6)
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Graham Greene (11)
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Joyce Grenfell (2)
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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Zane Grey (5)
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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Franz Grillparzer (6)
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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William Gurnall (4)
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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Walter Hagen (2)
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
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Joseph Hall (2)
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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Robert Hall (4)
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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Alexander Hamilton (13)
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Dag Hammarskjold (13)
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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Knut Hamsun (2)
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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Tony Hancock (2)
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
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Lorraine Hansberry (3)
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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Thomas Hardy (14)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Augustus Hare (5)
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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Keith Haring (2)
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
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Sydney J. Harris (13)
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
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Thomas Harrison (2)
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
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Bret Harte (2)
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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John Hawkes (2)
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Rutherford B. Hayes (6)
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
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William Hazlitt (38)
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (9)
Education is the art of making man ethical.
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Martin Heidegger (6)
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Gustav Heinemann (6)
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
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Robert A. Heinlein (14)
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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Werner Heisenberg (2)
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
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Joseph Heller (2)
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Ernest Hemingway (35)
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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Arthur Henderson (4)
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
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Jimi Hendrix (22)
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
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O. Henry (6)
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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Matthew Henry (7)
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
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Jim Henson (4)
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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A. P. Herbert (2)
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Frank Herbert (8)
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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Don Herold (3)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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James Herriot (4)
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (4)
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Gilbert Highet (2)
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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Patricia Highsmith (5)
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Napoleon Hill (28)
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Paul Hindemith (2)
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
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Alfred Hitchcock (9)
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Thomas Hobbes (8)
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Eric Hoffer (31)
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Abbie Hoffman (3)
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Hans Hofmann (2)
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Ben Hogan (4)
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
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Billie Holiday (5)
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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Buddy Holly (2)
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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Ernest Holmes (8)
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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Thomas Hood (2)
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
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Sidney Hook (3)
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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J. Edgar Hoover (2)
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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Herbert Hoover (20)
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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Anthony Hope (2)
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Edward Hopper (8)
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
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Karen Horney (3)
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Rogers Hornsby (2)
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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Douglas Horton (16)
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
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Alan Hovhaness (2)
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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Vernon Howard (8)
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Irving Howe (2)
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
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E. W. Howe (23)
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Julia Ward Howe (3)
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
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William Dean Howells (3)
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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Kin Hubbard (27)
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Elbert Hubbard (59)
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Langston Hughes (7)
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Charles Evans Hughes (4)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
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Johan Huizinga (3)
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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David Hume (16)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (16)
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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George M. Humphrey (2)
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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Ellsworth Huntington (2)
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
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Zora Neale Hurston (12)
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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Francis Hutcheson (2)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
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Aldous Huxley (45)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Thomas Huxley (33)
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Solomon Ibn Gabirol (3)
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
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Henrik Ibsen (11)
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu (2)
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
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William Ralph Inge (10)
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Jean Ingelow (4)
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
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Eugene Ionesco (2)
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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Muhammad Iqbal (14)
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Washington Irving (18)
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Helen Hunt Jackson (6)
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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Mahalia Jackson (13)
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Max Jacob (2)
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (3)
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Arne Jacobsen (4)
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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Henry James (10)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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William James (40)
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Alice James (2)
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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Storm Jameson (2)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Randall Jarrell (2)
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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Alfred Jarry (3)
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
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Robinson Jeffers (2)
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
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Thomas Jefferson (70)
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Gertrude Jekyll (3)
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
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Jerome K. Jerome (7)
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
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Douglas William Jerrold (5)
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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John Jewel (2)
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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Pope John XXIII (9)
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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Samuel Johnson (63)
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (24)
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
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Andrew Johnson (2)
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
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William Samuel Johnson (4)
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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John Paul Jones (3)
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
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E. Stanley Jones (5)
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Janis Joplin (5)
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.
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Barbara Jordan (6)
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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David Starr Jordan (2)
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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Joseph Joubert (14)
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
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James Joyce (11)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Carl Jung (19)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Franz Kafka (12)
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Meir Kahane (4)
The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.
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Frida Kahlo (5)
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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Henry J. Kaiser (3)
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
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Immanuel Kant (13)
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Herbert Kaufman (3)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Danny Kaye (3)
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
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Nikos Kazantzakis (7)
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
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John Keats (19)
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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Arthur Keith (2)
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
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Helen Keller (31)
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
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DeForest Kelley (2)
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
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Frank B. Kellogg (3)
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
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Thomas a Kempis (12)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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John F. Kennedy (46)
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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Edward Kennedy (3)
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
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Corita Kent (2)
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
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Charles Kettering (11)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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Black Kettle (3)
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
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Ellen Key (4)
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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John Maynard Keynes (10)
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Omar Khayyam (2)
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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Nikita Khrushchev (5)
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
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Soren Kierkegaard (22)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Richard King (5)
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
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Coretta Scott King (4)
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (41)
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.
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Charles Kingsley (6)
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Rudyard Kipling (12)
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Paul Klee (3)
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.
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Frank Knox (2)
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
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Arthur Koestler (4)
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Joseph Wood Krutch (7)
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Maggie Kuhn (3)
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Charles Kuralt (8)
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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Lactantius (2)
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
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Imre Lakatos (2)
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Corliss Lamont (2)
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
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Joseph Lancaster (2)
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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Michael Landon (5)
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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Walter Savage Landor (9)
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Tom Landry (3)
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
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Walter Lang (2)
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
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Lillie Langtry (6)
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
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Ring Lardner (3)
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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Christopher Lasch (20)
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette (2)
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater (6)
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Timothy Leary (6)
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
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Bruce Lee (11)
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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Robert E. Lee (11)
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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Vivien Leigh (5)
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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Vladimir Lenin (14)
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Aldo Leopold (4)
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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Max Lerner (5)
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (3)
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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Sam Levenson (3)
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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Sinclair Lewis (6)
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Joe E. Lewis (5)
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
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C. S. Lewis (25)
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Karl Liebknecht (4)
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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A. J. Liebling (4)
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (7)
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
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Abraham Lincoln (47)
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Charles Lindbergh (6)
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Franz Liszt (4)
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
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David Livingstone (3)
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
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John Locke (15)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Henry Cabot Lodge (3)
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
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Vince Lombardi (16)
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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Jack London (2)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (26)
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (3)
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Audre Lorde (9)
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
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Konrad Lorenz (2)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik (2)
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
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Christopher Love (2)
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
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H. P. Lovecraft (6)
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
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Juliette Gordon Low (2)
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
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James Russell Lowell (24)
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Amy Lowell (5)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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Clare Boothe Luce (11)
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
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Robert Staughton Lynd (5)
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
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Robert Wilson Lynd (2)
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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Paul Lynde (8)
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
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Douglas MacArthur (11)
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Norman MacCaig (6)
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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George MacDonald (12)
Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Ernst Mach (2)
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
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Niccolo Machiavelli (23)
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Agnes Macphail (2)
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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James Madison (27)
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Maurice Maeterlinck (10)
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Gustav Mahler (4)
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
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Ella Maillart (6)
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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Maimonides (3)
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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Malcolm X (21)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Andre Malraux (3)
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Thomas Malthus (4)
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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Maxwell Maltz (4)
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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Og Mandino (10)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Horace Mann (11)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Thomas Mann (11)
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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Marya Mannes (5)
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
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Katherine Mansfield (3)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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Robert Mapplethorpe (10)
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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Gabriel Marcel (2)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Jacques Maritain (4)
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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Don Marquis (18)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Alfred Marshall (2)
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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George C. Marshall (4)
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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Thurgood Marshall (2)
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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William Moulton Marston (3)
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
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Jose Marti (7)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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Mary Martin (2)
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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Walter Martin (2)
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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Dean Martin (3)
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
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James Martineau (2)
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Karl Marx (21)
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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John Masefield (2)
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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Abraham Maslow (7)
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Henri Matisse (7)
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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W. Somerset Maugham (29)
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Andre Maurois (14)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Rollo May (6)
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Jonathan Mayhew (2)
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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Mary McCarthy (4)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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Linda McCartney (2)
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
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Phyllis McGinley (6)
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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David O. McKay (3)
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
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William McKinley (2)
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
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John McKinley (2)
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
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Norman McLaren (2)
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
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Mignon McLaughlin (21)
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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Marshall McLuhan (19)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Peter McWilliams (4)
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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Margaret Mead (18)
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Golda Meir (14)
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Harry Melling (2)
I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
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Bernard Meltzer (6)
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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Herman Melville (13)
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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H. L. Mencken (60)
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Karl A. Menninger (3)
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Freddie Mercury (6)
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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George Meredith (4)
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Ethel Merman (9)
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
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Thomas Merton (12)
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Alice Meynell (3)
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
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Michelangelo (16)
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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James A. Michener (4)
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
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John Stuart Mill (11)
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Henry Miller (23)
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Merton Miller (5)
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
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C. Wright Mills (2)
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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A. A. Milne (5)
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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John Milton (5)
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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Ho Chi Minh (3)
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
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Margaret Mitchell (4)
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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Maria Mitchell (8)
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
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Addison Mizner (3)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
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Moliere (15)
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Claude Monet (5)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Marilyn Monroe (53)
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
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Ashley Montagu (6)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Eugenio Montale (6)
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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Maria Montessori (5)
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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James Montgomery (2)
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (2)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Dwight L. Moody (8)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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Thomas Moore (7)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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George Edward Moore (3)
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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Henry Moore (2)
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Marianne Moore (5)
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
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Thomas More (5)
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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J. P. Morgan (2)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Charles Morgan (2)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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Julia Morgan (2)
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
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Christopher Morley (15)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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William Morris (6)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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Jim Morrison (14)
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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Grandma Moses (2)
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
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Robert Motherwell (2)
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2)
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
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Malcolm Muggeridge (8)
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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John Muir (13)
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
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Max Muller (3)
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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Ethel Watts Mumford (3)
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
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Lewis Mumford (8)
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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Edvard Munch (7)
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Timothy Murphy (2)
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
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George Murray (4)
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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Edward R. Murrow (3)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Vladimir Nabokov (9)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Nagarjuna (2)
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Ogden Nash (14)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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George Jean Nathan (12)
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Daniel Nathans (2)
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
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Anna Neagle (2)
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (11)
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Howard Nemerov (9)
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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Simon Newcomb (2)
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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Huey Newton (6)
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (15)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (103)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Earl Nightingale (6)
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Florence Nightingale (4)
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Anais Nin (21)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Kwame Nkrumah (2)
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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Alfred Nobel (2)
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Frank Norris (2)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Henri Nouwen (2)
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
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David Ogilvy (11)
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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Charles Olson (3)
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
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Aristotle Onassis (6)
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
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George Orwell (47)
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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William Osler (11)
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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James Otis (3)
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
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Ouida (2)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Wilfred Owen (2)
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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Jesse Owens (2)
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
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Satchel Paige (9)
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
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Thomas Paine (31)
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Olof Palme (2)
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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George Papandreou (3)
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
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Paracelsus (4)
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Gilbert Parker (4)
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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Charles Henry Parkhurst (4)
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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C. Northcote Parkinson (4)
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Blaise Pascal (57)
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Boris Pasternak (3)
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Louis Pasteur (4)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
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If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
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It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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Babe Ruth (6)
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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George Sand (9)
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
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George Santayana (46)
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
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I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Arthur Schopenhauer (29)
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
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Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
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People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
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Georges Simenon (2)
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
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Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Alexander Smith (6)
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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Robert Smithson (3)
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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Georg Solti (2)
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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John Steinbeck (9)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Stendhal (14)
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Laurence Sterne (14)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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Wallace Stevens (16)
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Adlai E. Stevenson (24)
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (39)
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Adlai Stevenson (3)
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (7)
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Igor Stravinsky (5)
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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August Strindberg (3)
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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Louis Sullivan (2)
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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Anne Sullivan (2)
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
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Billy Sunday (10)
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Shinichi Suzuki (4)
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
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Gloria Swanson (7)
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
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Jonathan Swift (19)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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John Millington Synge (3)
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
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William Howard Taft (4)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Junichiro Tanizaki (2)
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
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Torquato Tasso (4)
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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Allen Tate (3)
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Johannes Tauler (2)
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
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A. J. P. Taylor (2)
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Jeremy Taylor (8)
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
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William Temple (6)
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
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Mother Teresa (18)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Tertullian (10)
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (8)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Lewis Thomas (3)
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
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Dylan Thomas (3)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
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James Thomson (5)
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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Henry David Thoreau (117)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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Johnny Thunders (2)
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
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James Thurber (14)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Gene Tierney (12)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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Paul Tillich (11)
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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Peter Tosh (2)
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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A life which does not go into action is a failure.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anthony Trollope (9)
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Pierre Trudeau (2)
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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Harry S. Truman (26)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Paul Tsongas (2)
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Elizabeth I (9)
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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Mark Twain (98)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Morihei Ueshiba (4)
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
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Evelyn Underhill (4)
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
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Paul Valery (16)
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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Jim Valvano (5)
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (12)
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Martin Van Buren (2)
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (5)
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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Mark Van Doren (2)
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
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Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Vincent Van Gogh (23)
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan (2)
Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Gianni Versace (5)
I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
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David Viscott (2)
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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Swami Vivekananda (9)
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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Voltaire (78)
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar (2)
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Otto von Bismarck (16)
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Wernher von Braun (3)
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Ludwig von Mises (10)
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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George Wald (2)
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
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Margaret Walker (3)
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
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It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
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Alfred Russel Wallace (3)
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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Hugh Walpole (2)
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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William Arthur Ward (14)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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Andy Warhol (18)
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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Charles Dudley Warner (5)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Earl Warren (6)
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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Martha Washington (2)
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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George Washington (30)
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Booker T. Washington (10)
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Ethel Waters (4)
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
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Thomas J. Watson (6)
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
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Isaac Watts (3)
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Alan Watts (16)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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Evelyn Waugh (3)
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
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John Webster (3)
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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Simone Weil (25)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Adam Weishaupt (2)
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Lawrence Welk (9)
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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Orson Welles (15)
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Rebecca West (11)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Edith Wharton (6)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Richard Whately (5)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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Benjamin Whichcote (2)
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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Ellen G. White (3)
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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E. B. White (19)
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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William Allen White (3)
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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Theodore White (5)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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George Whitefield (5)
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
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Alfred North Whitehead (19)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Walt Whitman (30)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (7)
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (6)
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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Oscar Wilde (100)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Thornton Wilder (12)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (2)
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Tennessee Williams (17)
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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William John Wills (2)
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
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Edmund Wilson (2)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Tom Wilson (5)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Samuel Wilson (3)
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
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Flip Wilson (7)
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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Harold Wilson (3)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Woodrow Wilson (19)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Walter Winchell (3)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (9)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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P. G. Wodehouse (3)
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (6)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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Natalie Wood (4)
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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George Edward Woodberry (2)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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Victoria Woodhull (3)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Carter G. Woodson (6)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
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Virginia Woolf (30)
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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William Wordsworth (21)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (26)
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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Frances Wright (5)
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Wilbur Wright (2)
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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Orville Wright (2)
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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William Wycherley (3)
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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Elinor Wylie (2)
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
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Tammy Wynette (2)
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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Minoru Yamasaki (3)
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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William Butler Yeats (28)
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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Francis Parker Yockey (6)
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
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Paramahansa Yogananda (3)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Loretta Young (14)
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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Arthur Young (2)
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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Brigham Young (5)
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
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Henny Youngman (16)
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
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Lin Yutang (4)
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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Emil Zatopek (6)
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
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Mao Zedong (12)
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Zhuangzi (6)
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Florenz Ziegfeld (2)
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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Emile Zola (6)
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Stefan Zweig (2)
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
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