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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 68
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Johann von Goethe
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
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Allan Goldfein
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
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John Ernst Steinbeck
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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Marquise du Deffand
The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult.
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Sally Kempton
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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Gypsy Proverb
May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right
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Yiddish Proverb
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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Samuel Butler
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)
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