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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
Author: Michael Apostolius
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No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
Author: Colette Bowe
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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-lytton
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].
Author: Tommy Lee Jones
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That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Author: Denis Diderot
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Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Author: Garry Trudeau
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Author: Alex Hamilton
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Author: Alfred De Musset
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Author: Blaise Pascal
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For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
Author: Cervantes
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Author: Chamfort
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Author: Claude T. Bissell
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Author: Danny Kaye
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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
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The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Author: Henry Kissinger
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There is nothing permanent except change.
Author: Heraclitus
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I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Author: J. Danforth Quayle
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Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
Author: William J. Clinton
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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"You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.
Author: John Boyle O'reilly
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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Author: Stewart Brand
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Author: Frank Rizzo
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Author: Goethe
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Author: Goethe
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On all the peaks lies peace.
Author: Goethe
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What have they done to you my poor child?
Author: Goethe
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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Author: Goethe
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'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
Author: H. G. Wells
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Author: Hippocrates
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Author: Simeon Strunsky
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Always count the cost.
Author: American Proverb
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
Author: Matthew Broderick
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They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
Author: George Armstrong Custer
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Author: Epictetus
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I am responsible only to God and history.
Author: Francisco Franco
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
Author: George Smith Patton
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Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).
Author: German Proverb
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More light!
Author: Goethe
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Author: Goethe
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Author: Goethe
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
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