Quotes 26281 till 26300 of 26406.
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Respectability: The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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