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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 146
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Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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William Bennet Munro
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)
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George Sand
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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Diane Westlake
Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.
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Dogen Zenji
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
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Elizabeth II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Phillips Brooks
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
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William Fullbright
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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William Fullbright
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
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