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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Norman Douglas
When you're through changing, you're through.
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Bruce Barton
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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Tom Hanks (1956 - )
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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J. Bartlett Brebner
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
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Dr. David M. Burns
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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Miriam Beard
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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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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