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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 51
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Andy Anderson
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
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B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Granni Nazzano
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
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Cato the Elder
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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Garry Shandling
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
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Jackie Robinson, baseball player
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Sir William Draper
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
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Yiddish Proverb
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
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Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
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Edmund Spenser
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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