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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
By Fran Lebowitz
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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."
By Sophia Loren
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"Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard. "
By Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995
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"Girls just want to have funds."
By Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
By Gail Godwin
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"God must become an activity in our consciousness."
By Joel S. Goldsmith
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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days."
By Ecclesiastes
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
By William Bridges
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"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
By Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
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"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth."
By Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
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"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
By Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
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"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education."
By John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914
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"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it."
By Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."
By George Washington
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"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation."
By Lord Robert Baden-Powell
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"God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil."
By Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."
By Mark Twain
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"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at."
By Jimmy Demaret
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
By Edith Sitwell
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