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  • 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.
  • Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
  • Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
  • We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
  • People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
  • When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
  • World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
  • What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
  • The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
  • It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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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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  • August Strindberg A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Jonathan Swift A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Pam Brown A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
    Pam Brown
    Australian poet (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Horace A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Les Brown Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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