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Jean De La Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Oscar Levant
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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William Arthur Ward
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
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Walter Linn
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
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Oscar Fingall O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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George Bernard Shaw
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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Charles M. Schulz
I know the answer The answer lies within the heart of all mankind The answer is twelve I think I'm in the wrong building.
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H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.
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Steve Prefontaine
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.
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G. C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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