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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
By Samuel Smiles
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"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."
By John Jay Chapman
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"Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery."
By Author Unknown
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"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
By Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
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"People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
By Marcelene Cox
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"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."
By Earl Nightingale
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"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
By Lee Iacocca
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"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should ad"
By H.L. Mencken
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"Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
By H.L. Mencken
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"Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
By H.L. Mencken
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
By Isaac Asimov
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"Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap."
By Billy Madison
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"Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your r"
By Billy Madison
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"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
By Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life su"
By Lyndon B. Johnson
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"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."
By Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dange"
By William Proxmire
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
By Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central m"
By George Bernard Shaw
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