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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 157
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William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Dame Rebecca West
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.
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Dale Carnegie
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use
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T. S. Eliot
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
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Author Unknown
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
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Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Frank Stephens
The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts.
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Judy Garland
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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George Stanley McGovern
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
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Heinrich Heine
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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