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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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Roseanne Barr: Women should try...

Roseanne Barr: Women should try...

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space...

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Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a...

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Bing Crosby: Oh -- I...

Bing Crosby: Oh -- I...

Oh -- I listen more and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

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Robert Burns: Learn taciturnity and...

Robert Burns: Learn taciturnity and...

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in...

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Robert Browning: And gain is...

Robert Browning: And gain is...

And gain is gain, however small.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Edward Koch: We're in the...

Edward Koch: We're in the...

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than...

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Edward Koch: They have given...

Edward Koch: They have given...

They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they gave...

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Edward Koch: If they don't...

Edward Koch: If they don't...

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Source: On charging...

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Barack Obama: We want everybody...

Barack Obama: We want everybody...

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the...

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Hubert H Humphrey: To err is...

Hubert H Humphrey: To err is...

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Eugene McCarthy: Saying we should...

Eugene McCarthy: Saying we should...

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a...

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James K Polk: The passion for...

James K Polk: The passion for...

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly...

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Franklin Pierce: [F]requently the more...

Franklin Pierce: [F]requently the more...

[F]requently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the...

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Grover Cleveland: He mocks the...

Grover Cleveland: He mocks the...

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the...

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James Madison: If men were...

James Madison: If men were...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal...

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Abraham Lincoln: Whenever I hear...

Abraham Lincoln: Whenever I hear...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him...

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Queen Victoria: An ugly baby...

Queen Victoria: An ugly baby...

An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed.

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