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Silly Quotations from Famous People - 102
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George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Chilo
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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Anatole France
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
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Arthur Rimbaud
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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Martin Luther
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
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Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
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Henry Louis Mencken
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
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