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  • As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
  • Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
  • Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
  • In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
  • They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
  • A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
  • The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
  • I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
  • Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
  • That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Les Brown A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Shakespeare Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rose Macaulay : One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Gray Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • William Shakespeare But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Philip Adams It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
    Philip Adams
    British career diplomat. (1915 - 2001)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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