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Quotations from Famous People - 61
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Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
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George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Juvenal, Satires
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
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William Safire
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie.
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Stanislaus
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little
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African Proverb
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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Carl Sandburg
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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H. L. Mencken
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
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Al Capp
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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