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Clever Famous Sayings - 88
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Sir Winston Churchill
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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Confucius
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
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Guy Lynch
Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning
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Albert Camus
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
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Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.
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Groucho Marx
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Henry Louis Mencken
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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Mark Twain
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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W. R. Inge
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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