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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 153
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Dag Hammarskjld
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V
Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.
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Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Dorothy Parker
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
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Jerry Rubin
By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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P. J. O\'Rourke
The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV.
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Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.
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Voltaire
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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