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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 179
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
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Seneca
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Groucho Marx
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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John M. Eades
There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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M Scott Peck
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.
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Poet Louise Bogan
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
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Earl Wilson
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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