Miscellaneous Quotes

• "The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
  By: Dale Carnegie
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• "A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings."
  By: Christina G. Rossetti
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• "If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?"
  By: Chinese Proverb
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• "In every age the good old days were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
  By: Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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• "I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something."
  By: Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888
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• "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
  By: Arthur Schopenhauer
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• "The sinning is the best part of repentance."
  By: Arab Proverb
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• "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
  By: Andy Warhol
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• "The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions."
  By: André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926
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• "From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair."
  By: André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925
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• "True eloquence forgoes eloquence."
  By: André Gide
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• "House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe."
  By: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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• "The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought."
  By: Albert Pinkham Ryder
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• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
  By: Albert Einstein
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• "The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart."
  By: Alan Alda
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• "My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."
  By: Abraham Lincoln
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