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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Georges Eliot
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
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I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
Fernando Botero
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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
English Proverb
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
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Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
Niccollo Machavelli
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
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We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney
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In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
Bryant McGill
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
Salvador Dali
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
Carl Jung
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Robert A. Heinlein
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...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!
Tennessee Williams
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Henry David Thoreau
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Tony Robbins
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush
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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
John Kerry
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You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her.
Rachel Hunter
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Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)
Julius Ceasar
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson
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You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin
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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Frederich Nietzsche
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
Elizabeth Taylor
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
Aaron McGruder
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
Calvin Coolidge
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I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat
Marilyn Manson
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Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.
J. R .R. Tolkien
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca
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When you make a mistake; admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
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