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A random selection of fabulous
quotations from famous writers throughout history. From our database of over
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Quotations from Famous People - 119
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George Washington
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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W.C. Fields
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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Douglas Noel Adams
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)
When I am asked, What do you think of our audience? I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.
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Adolf Hitler
...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
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Michel de Montaigne
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Euripides
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
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George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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