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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.: Art Spander
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.: Fritz Perls
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
It is better to wear out than to rust out.: Bishop Richard Cumberland
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.: J. Hart (1931 - )
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
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Dare to be yourself.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
No.: Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945), Benchley's Law of Distinction