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Humour Proverbs and Sayings - 94
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Publilius Syrus
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Remy de Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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Robert Francis Kennedy
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
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Wayne Gretzky
I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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Thomas Paine
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work is victory.
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George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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Rachel Carson
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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A. Alvarez
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
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