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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.: Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), on the eve of his 75th birthday
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.: George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
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Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.: Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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