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A random selection of fabulous
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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 168
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Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
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Robert Lynd, Book-"The Pleasures of Ignorance" (1921)
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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Michael Winner, British film director
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
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Abigail Adams
Great necessities call forth great leaders.
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Joyce
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
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Lord Bertrand Russell
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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Mentat Prayer
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
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Robert Francis Kennedy
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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Katharine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Georges Clemenceau
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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Jimmy Breslin
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
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