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Quotations from Famous People - 103
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Euripides
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Charles Schwab
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
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Maori Proverb
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
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F. H. Bradley
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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C. C. Colton
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
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Clive Staples Lewis
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Walker Percy
To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.
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Fred Allen
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
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