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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
~Author : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Famous Quotes

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The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
~Author : Laotzu The Way of Laotzu Inspirational Sayings

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
~Author : Stanislaw Lec Nice Quotes

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
~Author : Marya Mannes The Quotable Womanon Love Relationships Great Sayings

America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
~Author : Rush Limbaugh Meaningful Sayings

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
~Author : H L Mencken Motivational Sayings

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

A single fact can spoil a good argument.
~Author : Anonymous Inspirational Sayings

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
~Author : Alan Turing Nice Quotes

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
~Author : Scott Westerfeld Peeps 2005 Great Sayings

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
~Author : James Thurber Meaningful Sayings

This–this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl’s voice…a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~Author : Roger Bannister Wise Quotes

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
~Author : William James Motivational Sayings

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
~Author : Paul De Rapin Famous Quotes

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
~Author : JB Priestley Inspirational Sayings

A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much.
~Author : Ken Wisdom Nice Quotes

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Great Sayings

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
~Author : Ellen Glasgow Meaningful Sayings

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~Author : Aristotle Eudemian Ethics Wise Quotes

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
~Author : Christina Georgina Rossetti Motivational Sayings

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
~Author : Sir Richard Steele Famous Quotes

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the “C” compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
~Author : Berkeley VaxUnix Assembler Reference Manual 1983 Inspirational Sayings

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex … it takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
~Author : Albert Einstein Nice Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
~Author : Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Great Sayings

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~Author : Mother Theresa Meaningful Sayings

Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think…I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check.
~Author : M C Escher Wise Quotes

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
~Author : Sylvia AshtonWarner Spinster Motivational Sayings

 

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
~Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne Famous Quotes

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Judge not the horse by his saddle.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
~Author : Paul Tillich Nice Quotes

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
~Author : Margot Asquith Great Sayings

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out
~Author : Will Rogers Meaningful Sayings

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
~Author : Charles De Gaulle Wise Quotes

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
~Author : Vaclev Havel Famous Quotes

Love can’t be proven until you both die loving each other.
~Author : Airon T Reyes Inspirational Sayings

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
~Author : Theodore Hesburgh Nice Quotes

To defend one’s self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.
~Author : James Arthur Baldwin Great Sayings

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
~Author : Soren Kierkegaard Meaningful Sayings

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
~Author : C C Colton Wise Quotes

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.
~Author : Kin Hubbard Motivational Sayings

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
~Author : Sophocles Ajax Nice Quotes

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
~Author : Marquis de Sade Great Sayings

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
~Author : Leontyne Price Meaningful Sayings

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Wise Quotes

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
~Author : David Seabury Motivational Sayings

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
~Author : Alan Perlis Famous Quotes

The government is us we are the government, you and I.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Sayings

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
~Author : Dominique de Menil Nice Quotes

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
~Author : Henry Miller Great Sayings

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Meaningful Sayings

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
~Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Wise Quotes

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
~Author : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Motivational Sayings

 

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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
~Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Famous Quotes

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We’re not talking about historical accuracy, we’re talking about art. I’ve set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.
~Author : David Assael Inspirational Sayings

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.
~Author : Andre Maurois Nice Quotes

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
~Author : William Blake Great Sayings

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
~Author : Marie Curie Meaningful Sayings

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
~Author : Fidel Castro Speech given in January 1963 calling for communist revolution in Latin America Wise Quotes

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves – to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer – and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the “dim religious light” of some solemn cathedral?
~Author : Lewis Carroll Motivational Sayings

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
~Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer New York Times Magazine Mar 12 1978 Famous Quotes

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
~Author : Don Mazankowski Inspirational Sayings

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.
~Author : Nikos Kazantzakis Nice Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
~Author : Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 1955 Great Sayings

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
~Author : Claude T Bissell Wise Quotes

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
~Author : Johann von Neumann Famous Quotes

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
~Author : Louis D Brandeis Inspirational Sayings

Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
~Author : Norman Mailer Nice Quotes

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Sayings

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Meaningful Sayings

[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Wise Quotes

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
~Author : George Santayana Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch 4 Motivational Sayings

The world must be made safe for democracy.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson April 2 1917 Famous Quotes

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
~Author : Zig Ziglar Inspirational Sayings

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Author : Buddha Nice Quotes

When salvation is viewed as man’s program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God’s program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
~Author : Michael Horton Great Sayings

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
~Author : Bill Watterson Meaningful Sayings

No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
~Author : Arthur Schlesinger Jr Playboy Interview May 1966 Wise Quotes

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
~Author : Prince Philip of England Motivational Sayings

 

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
~Author : Voltaire Famous Quotes

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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson 1791 Inspirational Sayings

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Nice Quotes

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
~Author : Anon Great Sayings

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.
~Author : Edward M Berckman Meaningful Sayings

Doubt ’til thou canst doubt no more…doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
~Author : Albert Guerard Wise Quotes

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 scene 1 Motivational Sayings

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
~Author : R A Salvatore Sojourn Famous Quotes

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
~Author : Wystan Hugh Auden Inspirational Sayings

Blade He makes the weapons, I use them.
~Author : Blade Nice Quotes

Strike the tent.
~Author : Robert E Lee last words 12 October 1870 Great Sayings

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I?m a German, and Germany will say that I?m a jew.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
~Author : Denis Diderot Wise Quotes

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
~Author : Lord RitchieCalder Motivational Sayings

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself
~Author : La Rochefoucauld Famous Quotes

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
~Author : Pierce Harris Inspirational Sayings

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
~Author : Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun Nice Quotes

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
~Author : Neil Postman Great Sayings

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
~Author : Sophocles Meaningful Sayings

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
~Author : Imam Ali Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha Wise Quotes

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
~Author : Dr Jonas Salk Motivational Sayings

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
~Author : Igor Stravinsky Famous Quotes

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Inspirational Sayings

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
~Author : Bette Davis Nice Quotes

The truth is more important than the facts.
~Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Great Sayings

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
~Author : Rod Serling Meaningful Sayings

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
~Author : I Ching Wise Quotes

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Motivational Sayings

 

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
~saying on Poverty by Willem de Kooning

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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
~good intention quotes by Mort Sahl

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
~intention by Benjamin Franklin

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~sayings about intention by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
~quotes about Attitude by Buddha

Arm ourselves for war? No! All the arms we need are for hugging.
~good intention quotes by Author Unknown

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
~saying on Love by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

 

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~funny confucius quote by C.C. Scott

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There is a syndrome in sports called ”paralysis by analysis.”
~saying on Growth by Arthur Ashe

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
~funny confucius quote by Robert Mueller

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
~confucius by Author Unknown

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
~sayings about confucius by Bill Vaughan

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
~quotes about Humankind by Abraham Meyerson

All religions must be tolerated… for… every man must get to heaven his own way.
~funny confucius quote by Frederick the Great

 

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
~famous spanish saying by Author Unknown

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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
~saying on Hypocrisy by Benjamin Franklin

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It’s like the old days revived. We’re loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We’re the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world…. the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.
~famous spanish saying by Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
~spanish by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The living moment is everything.
~sayings about spanish by D.H. Lawrence

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
~quotes about Famous Saying by Mahatma Gandhi

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
~famous spanish saying by André Dubus

 

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~funny t-shirt sayings by Robert F. Kennedy

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
~saying on Philosophical by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
~funny t-shirt sayings by Martha Graham

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~tshirt by Mark Twain

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
~sayings about tshirt by Arthur Ashe

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
~quotes about Kindness by Author Unknown

Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate!
~funny t-shirt sayings by Author Unknown

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
~saying on Water by Isak Dinesen

 

Music is a medicine for many… Silence is a poison for some…

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Wise Quotes

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A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things.
~Author : Marion Hammer Motivational Sayings

Summer afternoon – Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~Author : Henry James Famous Quotes

Music is a medicine for many… Silence is a poison for some…
~Author : Jacqui Webb Inspirational Sayings

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~Author : Robert M Pirsig Nice Quotes

Humor – the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
~Author : Author Unknown Great Sayings

 

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience

I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.
~Author : The Rock Inspirational Sayings

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
~Author : Frank Herbert Nice Quotes

Green Goblin We are who we choose to be… now, CHOOSE.
~Author : SpiderMan Great Sayings

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
~Author : Dutch Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
~Author : Author Unknown Wise Quotes

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved
~Author : Anzia Yenerska Motivational Sayings