Quotes with oldies-but-goodies

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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Shawn McCabe A snake is afraid of a mongoes, a mongoes is afraid of a dog, a dog is
    afraid of man, but why is man not afraid of God?
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Epictetus A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Groucho Marx A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Camille Paglia A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Babe Paley All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • George Orwell All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Haydon All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bhagavad Gita All mankind
    Is born for perfection
    And each shall attain it
    Will he but follow
    His nature's duty.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Sun Tzu All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sigmund Freud America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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