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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Author: Sally Berger
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Author: Frank Herbert, Dune
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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
Author: David Cronenberg
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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Author: Henry Iv
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Author: Stanley Milgram
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Author: Frederick Douglass
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
Author: Jimmy Page
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Author: E. S. Bouton
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No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.
Author: John Steinbeck
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Author: American Indian Proverb
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
Author: Marshall Mcluhan
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Author: Charles Francis Adams
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I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
Author: Phil Lout
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Author: Gail Godwin
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
Author: Michael Burke
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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Author: Herbert Agar
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
Author: Epictetus
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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
Author: M. H. Alderson
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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
Author: Wayne Dyer
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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Author: Katharine Graham
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Author: St. Augustine
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
Author: Roy Jr. Blount
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Author: Euripides
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are not in business to be popular.
Author: Kirstie Alley
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The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.
Author: Brandy
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Author: Heartland Advisor
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Author: Heraclitus
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Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
Author: Thea Alexander
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A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Author: Robert Henri
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
Author: Luis Bunuel
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Author: Jean-paul Sartre
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
Author: Avon
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Author: M Kathleen Casey
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-lytton
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If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100].
Author: Eubie Blake
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Author: Sandara Carey
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Author: Roland Barthes
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The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
Author: George Gallup
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No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Author: Claudius
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
Author: Rene Daumal
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Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
Author: Hertzler
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To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
Author: Francis Bowen
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Author: Joe Davis
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A favorite has no friend!
Author: Thomas Gray
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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Author: Kenneth Baker
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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
Author: Sudie Back
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