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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
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Phil Knight, founder of Nike
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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Thomas Berger
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
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Bob Edwards
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), My Religion, 1927
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
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Paul Fussell
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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Brendan Francis
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
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Rita Rudner
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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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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