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Quotations from Famous People - 187
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Jimmy Cannon
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
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Carl Sandburg
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
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Woody Allen
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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Napolean Hill
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Dick Cavett
I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.
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Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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William Shakespeare
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates calculators.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
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