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Humorous Famous People Sayings - 165
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Walter Elliot
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
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Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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Sophocles
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Alla Yaroshinskaya
Haste is good only in catching fleas.
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Carl Jung
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
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Baltasar Gracian
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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Helen Keller
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
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Andrew Lang
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
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