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  • Oscar Wilde A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Chester Nimitz A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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  • Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Robert Frost A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • David Brinkley A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • David Brink A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Baltasar Gracian A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Doug Larson A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Napoleon A true man hates no one.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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