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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
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H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
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Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
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Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
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Mortimer Adler
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
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Diana Nyad
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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Meister Eckhart
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
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Jessica Alba
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
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L. M. Boyd
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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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