Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 1633.
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“If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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