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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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John Andrew Holmes
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
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Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 11-05-09
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Bill Vaughan
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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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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