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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 79
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment
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Aaron Burr
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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William H. Borah
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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Al Capone
This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
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Mark Twain
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Eric Butterworth
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
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Will Rogers
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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Sir John Lubbock
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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