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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
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Lillian Eichler Watson
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
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Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
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R. D. Hitchcock
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.
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Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
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Alice Thomas Ellis
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
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Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), State of Fear
I am just going outside and may be some time.
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Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912), last words
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
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Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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Aaron Rose
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
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Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
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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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