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Random Short Quotes - 42
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Benjamin Franklin
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
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Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
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Juan Ramon Jiminez
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
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Clare Booth Luce
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
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Gail Sheehy
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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Menander, The Double Deceiver
Whom the gods love dies young.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Lord Essex
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
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Stephen William Hawking
My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.
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