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Dick Gregory: Political promises are...

Dick Gregory: Political promises are...

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate...

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I would like...

I would like...

I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her...

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John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

Source: Piscatory Eclogues, V. xiii
-- John...

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A nickname is...

A nickname is...

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we...

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Kelly Miller: All great people...

Kelly Miller: All great people...

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...

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If you make...

If you make...

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise...

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Would that there...

Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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Euripides: Slight not what...

Euripides: Slight not what...

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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John Wanamaker: [A]ny seeming deception...

John Wanamaker: [A]ny seeming deception...

[A]ny seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental...

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Charles H Spurgeon: The anvil is...

Charles H Spurgeon: The anvil is...

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go...

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I always wear...

I always wear...

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Source: In...

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Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Source: In The Last...

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Jean Toomer: We start with...

Jean Toomer: We start with...

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Source: Definitions and...

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Martin Luther: The fewer the...

Martin Luther: The fewer the...

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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Poetry is a...

Poetry is a...

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in...

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A E Housman: When I was...

A E Housman: When I was...

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
`Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart...

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