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Random Short Quotes - 101
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Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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Ovid
What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
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Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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Jessamyn West
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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Tommy Boy
Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD
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H. Ross Perot
Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.
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Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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Oscar Wilde
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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Kent Nerburn
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
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Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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