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Funniest Proverbs and Quotations - 39
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Francois de Fenelon
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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Bertrand Russell
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
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George Orwell, 1946
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Lord Byron
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
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Anon.
Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
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W. Somerset Maugham
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.
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Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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Samuel Johnson
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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