Quotes 8501 till 8520 of 8601.
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Conscience does make cowards of us all.
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Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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Every good servant does not all commands.
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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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