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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Never promise more than you can perform.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
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Brendan Francis
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
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The Mishnah
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
All appears to change when we change.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
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Margaret Peters
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
I can resist anything but temptation.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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