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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
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John Lancaster Spalding
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
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John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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Herb Caen
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
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Anonymous
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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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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