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Anthony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
William Cobbett
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
Ralph Nader
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Samuel Richardson
Good men must be affectionate men.
Ralph Waldo Trine
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Ilya Ehrenburg
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Nikos Kazantzakis
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.
Biblical Proverb
He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
Confucius
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Dominique de Menil
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
I am just going outside and may be some time.
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Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
John Claypool
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
Herman Melville
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Ruth Gordon
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
Herbert Clark Hoover
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
Richard Milhous Nixon
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
Woody Allen
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
William Blake
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
John Wanamaker
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half.
George Santayana
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
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Ronald Reagan
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.
Ronald Reagan
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
Tallulah Bankhead
It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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Miguel de Cervantes
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
Heinrich Heine
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Andre Agassi, on "Charlie Rose"
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
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Quotations of the day - International Herald TribuneSat, 06 Dec 2008 11:15:00 GMT
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Oriana Fallaci
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Lao Tzu
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
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Joseph Addison
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Martin Luther King Jr.
But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, 'What am I doing'
Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
Anonymous
Change is good, but dollars are better.
Norman Thomas
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Dame Edith Sitwell
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Cicero
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Judge Judy, From her book "Beauty fades; dumb is forever."
Beauty fades; dumb is forever.
Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
Pablo Casals
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Noam Chomsky
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Emily Taft Douglas
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
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