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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 38
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Aesop
It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
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John A. Locke
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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Frank H. Crane
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
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Anaximenes
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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Herodotus, Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Edith Cavell
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
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Unknown
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
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