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The love of...

The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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The ideology of...

The ideology of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...

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The truth is...

The truth is...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...

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No one is...

No one is...

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is...

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The future is...

The future is...

The future is . . . black.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 25 Aug...

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A lot of...

A lot of...

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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The fellow that...

The fellow that...

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

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BOUNDARY, n. In...

BOUNDARY, n. In...

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one...

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DELUGE, n. A...

DELUGE, n. A...

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the...

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Saint Augustine: Patience is the...

Saint Augustine: Patience is the...

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Source: On Patience'
-- Saint Augustine,...

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Saint Augustine: Thou must be...

Saint Augustine: Thou must be...

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art...

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Fulton J Sheen: The proud man...

Fulton J Sheen: The proud man...

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble man his blessings.

Source:...

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Brigham Young: We want men...

Brigham Young: We want men...

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or...

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St Francis of Assisi: Grant that we...

St Francis of Assisi: Grant that we...

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Source: In My...

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Robert Burton: Old friends become...

Robert Burton: Old friends become...

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Source:...

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Francis Bacon: A man that...

Francis Bacon: A man that...

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.

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Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Source: In...

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Jean de LaBruyere: There are certain...

Jean de LaBruyere: There are certain...

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture...

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Jean de LaBruyere: There is no...

Jean de LaBruyere: There is no...

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun...

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John Tillotson: Ignorance and inconsideration...

John Tillotson: Ignorance and inconsideration...

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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