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William Safire
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Dr.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
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Michel de Montaigne
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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Samuel Smiles
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
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Afranius
The wise man will love all others will desire.
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Melissa Timberman
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
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Grace Slick
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
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Sherlock Holmes
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Gustave Flaubert
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
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Samuel Goldwyn
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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