3829-Frederick Douglas- ‘The soul that is within me no man can degrade.’
Monthly Archives: April 1997
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2266-Woody Allen- ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’
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705-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.’
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3799-Dale Carnegie- ‘Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.’
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2236-James Barrie- ‘Always be a little kinder than necessary.’
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675-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.’
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3768-Lao Tzu- ‘When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.’
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2205-W. R. Inge- ‘It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.’
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644-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.’
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3738-Lao Tzu- ‘Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.’
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2175-Mae West- ‘He who hesitates is a damned fool.’
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614-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.’
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3707-Richard Bach- ‘The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.’
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2144-George Gordon Byron- ‘I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.’
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583-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.’
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3676-Michel de Montaigne- ‘I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.’
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2113-Friedrich Nietzsche- ‘Only sick music makes money today.’
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552-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.’
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3646-Laurence J. Peter- ‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.’
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2083-Thomas Fuller- ‘With foxes we must play the fox.’
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522-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.’
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3615-Sir Laurence Olivier- ‘Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.’
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2052-Davis Love, Jr.- ‘When it’s breezy, hit it easy.’
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491-Ralph Waldo Emerson- ‘The years teach much which the days never knew.’
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3585-Ben Johnson- ‘I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on’t, and tightly, too, an’ I live, i’faith.’
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2022-John Dryden- ‘Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.’
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461-George Bernard Shaw- ‘We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.’
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3554-P. J. O’Rourke- ‘Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.’
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1993-Carl Sandburg- ‘I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.’
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430-George Bernard Shaw- ‘Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.’
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3526-Buddha- ‘The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.’
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1965-Marya Mannes- ‘It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.’
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402-George Bernard Shaw- ‘The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.’
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3495-Henry Kissinger- ‘Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.’
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1934-Roosevelt, Eleanor- ‘I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.’
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371-George Bernard Shaw- ‘As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.’
