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Humour Famous Sayings - 164
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning.
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Thomas Mann
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Richard Feynman
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Siddha Nagarjuna
He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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William Ralph Inge
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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Sir Anthony Hawkins
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Hubert Humphrey
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Dan Quayle
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
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