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Funniest Famous People Sayings - 9
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Homer
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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William Butler Yeats
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
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Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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La Rochefoucauld
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
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Elmer Davis
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
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Lord Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
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Bhagavad Gita
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
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Saint Teresa of Avila
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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