Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
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I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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The worshiper is the father of the gods
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Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. Jean Anouilh #0766 We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
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Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe #0754Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other." H.P.
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The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K.
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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
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