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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 118
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Anon.
Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.
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Horace
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
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William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
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Joseph Campbell
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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Albert Camus
How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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Primo Levi
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
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Jonathan Swift
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
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Homer, The Odyssey
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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