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Friedrich Nietzsche: Beggars. . ....

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beggars. . ....

Beggars. . . should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to...

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Doug Horton: Good ideas are...

Doug Horton: Good ideas are...

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Doug Horton: If food were...

Doug Horton: If food were...

If food were free, why work?

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Doug Horton: If wishes were...

Doug Horton: If wishes were...

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

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Doug Horton: Desperation is like...

Doug Horton: Desperation is like...

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong...

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William R Alger: The wealth of...

William R Alger: The wealth of...

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you...

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Israel Zangwill: Dead men hear...

Israel Zangwill: Dead men hear...

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Socrates: I decided that...

Socrates: I decided that...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,...

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Socrates: Let him that...

Socrates: Let him that...

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Source: In Reader's...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Defeat is a...

Henry Ward Beecher: Defeat is a...

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Source: In Webster's...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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James Joyce: Art is the...

James Joyce: Art is the...

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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Robert Graves: I believe that...

Robert Graves: I believe that...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to...

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C P Snow: I believe the...

C P Snow: I believe the...

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other,...

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Anita Loos: Show business is...

Anita Loos: Show business is...

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Source: Kiss Hollywood...

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Willa Cather: What was any...

Willa Cather: What was any...

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...

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Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Source: In NY...

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Isaac Singer: When I was...

Isaac Singer: When I was...

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a...

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