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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 135
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Saint Bernard
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Han Suyin
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
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Hellen Keller
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
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Albert Einstein
Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race
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Scott Adams
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Hell is other people.
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English Proverb
Use soft words and hard arguments.
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Harry S Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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American Indian Proverb
What the people believe is true. Anishinabe
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Thomas Tusser
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Sir Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
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