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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the...

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Vaclav Havel: The exercise of...

Vaclav Havel: The exercise of...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the...

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John Adams: Liberty can not...

John Adams: Liberty can not...

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

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Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Source: In The...

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Abraham Lincoln: If this is...

Abraham Lincoln: If this is...

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: A good orator...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: A good orator...

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Memory is the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Memory is the...

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Source: De Oritare.
-- Marcus...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is foolish...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is foolish...

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: No one is...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: No one is...

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Source: De Senectute,...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: The wise are...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: The wise are...

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Let reason govern...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Let reason govern...

Let reason govern desire.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: What one has,...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: What one has,...

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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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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Harold Macmillan: When the curtain...

Harold Macmillan: When the curtain...

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Source: On...

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Winston Churchill: You may try...

Winston Churchill: You may try...

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

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Winston Churchill: Political skill is...

Winston Churchill: Political skill is...

Political skill is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And...

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Winston Churchill: It is hard,...

Winston Churchill: It is hard,...

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman -- they remain beautiful and the snub...

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Winston Churchill: No crime is...

Winston Churchill: No crime is...

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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