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Quotations from Famous People - 143
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Karl von Bonstetten
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
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Mary Wilson Little
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Byron J. Langenfeld
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
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Abraham Lincoln
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
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Elizabeth Taylor
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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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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Chuang-tzu
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Oscar Levant
I knew her before she was a virgin.
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Saint Francis de Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Krishnamurti
Truth is a pathless land.
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