Quotes 1 till 20 of 1583.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Source: Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964) -
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
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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.
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