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Quotations from Famous People - 126
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Anonymous
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.
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Mary Pickford
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Sophocles, Antigone
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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Laurie Anderson
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom
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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.
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English proverb
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
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Robert Oxton Bolt
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
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Robertson Davies
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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Benjamin Franklin
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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Robin Green
You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.
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Mexican Proverb
He who divides and shares is left with the best share.
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