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Silly Quotations from Famous People - 182
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Tennessee Williams
Security is a kind of death.
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Maria Callas
Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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CIA Manual
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
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Quintilian
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Earnest Hemingway
There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
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Erich Segal
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
It is only the first step that is difficult.
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Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.
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Selwyn Champion
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.
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