Quotes with oldies-but-goodies

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  • Armistead Maupin But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bayard Taylor But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bea Arthur But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • William Shakespeare But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bayard Taylor By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bart Conner Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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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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  • A. J. P. Taylor Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • William Shakespeare Conscience is but a word that cowards use.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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