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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
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Anne Wilson Schaef
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
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Audrey Giorgi
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
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Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
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
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
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John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
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Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974)
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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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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