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Quotations from Famous People - 28
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Pythagoras
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Neil Kinnock
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
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Mary Schmich
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.
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Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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Voltaire
This poem will never reach its destination.
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Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Josh Billings
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Leoardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
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Tryon Edwards
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
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