Quotes with one-liners

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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
    De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Vince Lombardi Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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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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  • 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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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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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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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Josh Billings Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • David Mitchell Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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  • Plutarch Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Albert Einstein Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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