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Random Funny Quotes - 5
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Hesiod
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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Alexander Hamilton
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
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William James
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Dan Quayle
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
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Lily Tomlin
We're all in this alone.
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Melchior De Polignac
To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est)
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John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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Tom Thompson
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
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Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I’ll live as I believe.
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