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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 152
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Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Simon Cameron
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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Anna Sewell
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
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Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
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Author Unknown
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
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H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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P Barnum
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.
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Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
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Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man"
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Francis Beaumont
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, 'Injection I thought you said inspection'.' They'd probably feel real bad, and maybe I could get out of it.
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