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Silly Quotations from Famous People - 192
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Alan Coren
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
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Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Author Unknown
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
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James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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Henry Clay
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
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Saint Augustine
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
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Paul Tsongas
The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.
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Henry C. Link
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
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Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
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Walter Kerr
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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Dave Barry
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
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Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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