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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 63
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Theodore Roosevelt
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
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A.E. Houseman
When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away.
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
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Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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Confucius
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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Confucius
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
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Unknown
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
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H. P. Lovecraft
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
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Author Unknown
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
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