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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Unknown
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Keep cool and you command everybody.
Louis de Saint-Just
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Abraham Lincoln
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Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary.
Adam Smith
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If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
Ayn Rand
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp
Robert Browning
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
Jerry Garcia
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It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
Randy K. Milholland
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The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
C. S. Lewis
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O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
Sophocles
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Adams
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Louisa May Alcott
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
Emily Dickinson
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I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
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Fashion changes, style remains.
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
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When I was born, I was black. When I grow up, I'm black. When I'm ill, When I die, I'm black. But you - When you're born, you're pink. When you grow up, you're white. When you're ill, you're green. When you go out in the sun, you go red. When you're cold, you go blue. When you die, you're purple. And you have the nerve to call me Colored?
Malcolm X
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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates
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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
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Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
The Koran
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He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Albert Einstein
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The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
Todd Ruthman
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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
Ovid
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
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He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
Dr. Isaac Barrow
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Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Jack Nicklaus
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani Difranco
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
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And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide.
Chris Hubbock
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George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
Al Gore
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