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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
We touch other peoples lives simply by existing.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
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Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
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Ann Richards
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Go, and never darken my towels again.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
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Lorraine Anderson
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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Chinese Proverb
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
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Margaret Millar
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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Alice Walker (1944 - ), "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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Alice Munro
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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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