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Quotations from Famous People - 36
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Robert Cecil Day Lewis
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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John Fletcher
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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Johann von Goethe
Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.
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E. B. White
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Horace, Odes
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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David Dean Rusk
We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
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Henry David Thoreau
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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Starhawk
...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through.
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Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Denis Diderot
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Johann von Goethe
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Eddie Cantor
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
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