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She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley
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War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
Niccollo Machavelli
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Come not within the measure of my wrath.
William Shakespeare
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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There is measure in all things.
Horace
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes
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Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
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Union gives strength.
Aesop
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.
Tao Te Ching
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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
Homer
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There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
Homer
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.
Alan Perlis
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The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
David Rogers
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Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
Sir Thomas Browne
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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
H. L. Mencken
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.
Corrie ten Boom
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Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anne Herbert
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A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
Anatole France
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I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. Galento, may he r3est in peace. Giardello, LaMotta, Carmen Basilio. What a sweetheart Basilio is. They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
Willie Pastrano
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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Muriel Strode
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
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Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.
Jonathan Miller
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