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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 41
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am a part of all I have seen.
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Rabbi Mark David Finkel, Gov. Craig Benson Inaugural Speech, January 9, 2003
We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.
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Plato
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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Gerald R. Ford
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)
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Peter Stack, in a movie review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2, 1983
My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
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George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Bette Midler
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Paul Karl Feyerabend
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
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Alex Comfort
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
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Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
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Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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