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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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George Wald (1906 - )
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got.
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Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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Lenin (1870 - 1924)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
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Ausonius
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 12-19-2011
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Paxton Hood
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
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George F. Will (1941 - )
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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May Sarton
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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
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