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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.
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Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
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Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Frank Moore Colby
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.
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Sara B. Cooper, House, Damned If You Do, 2004
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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Sidney J. Harris
My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
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Chinese Proverb
Storms make oaks take deeper root.
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
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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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