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Quotations from Famous People - 102
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Kahlil Gibran
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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Ambrose Bierce
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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John D. Rockefeller
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John Updike
There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Martin Luther
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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Paul Erlich
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
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Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, The Rickover Effect
The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through.
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Tiresias, [Apollodorus, Library 3.6.7]
Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in her heart.
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Walter Savage Landor
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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