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Humour Famous Sayings - 154
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
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Erich Fromm
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
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Michael Hanson
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
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Anna Garlin Spencer
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
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Cicero
The freedom of poetic license.
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Daniel Webster
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
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Samuel Beckett
The major sin is the sin of being born.
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George Eliot
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
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Sir Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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