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Silly Things People Say - 42
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Miguel de Cervantes
A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Sophocles
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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George Jackson
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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Ralph W. Sockman
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Dorothy Thompson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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Richard Sibbes
Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
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Oscar Hammerstein, II
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me
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Richard Milhous Nixon
You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
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Will Durst
In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.
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George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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Johann von Neumann
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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