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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 189
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Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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Saint Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.
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Oscar Wilde
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Margaret Fuller
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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Martin Luther
Here stand I. I can do no other.
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James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"
I call that a scumhead.
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J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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George Crane
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
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John Dryden
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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