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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Author: H. G. Wells
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
Author: Golda Meir
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Author: Abba Eban
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
Author: General George S. Patton
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Author: A. J. Liebling
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Author: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Author: Saint Augustine
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Author: Albert Einstein
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Author: Galileo Galilei
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Author: Emile Zola
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
Author: Moses Hadas
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.
Author: Mark Twain
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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Whatever come we have to meet it.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.
Author: Chavalier Jackson
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Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.
Author: William H. Welch
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The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
Author: John Shaw Billings
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Author: Proverb
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Crime never sleeps.
Author: Proverb
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He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Author: Proverb
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard.
Author: William Feather
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Author: Ernie Kovacs
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Author: Calvin Trillin
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Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
Author: Ben Hecht
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Author: Alan Paton
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Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Author: Alan Paton
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Author: Alan Paton
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Author: Alvin Toffler
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Author: Frank Herbert
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