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Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Of two evils choose the prettier.

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

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Jean Paul Richter: A timid person...

Jean Paul Richter: A timid person...

A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus...

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Rose Tremain: There is something...

Rose Tremain: There is something...

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

There are two reasons for drinking; one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to...

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Franklin Pierce: I find the...

Franklin Pierce: I find the...

I find the remark, Tis distance lends enchantment to the view is no less true of the political than of the natural...

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Ulysses S Grant: I know no...

Ulysses S Grant: I know no...

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent...

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Grover Cleveland: The Ship of...

Grover Cleveland: The Ship of...

The Ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on...

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Winston Churchill: We must beware...

Winston Churchill: We must beware...

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

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Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

Source: On initial...

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Aneurin Bevan: I read the...

Aneurin Bevan: I read the...

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Source: In...

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David Dinkins: You can be...

David Dinkins: You can be...

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper...

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Sam Ervin: I've always been...

Sam Ervin: I've always been...

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them,...

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Paul Sweeney: True success is...

Paul Sweeney: True success is...

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Nelson A Rockefeller: It is essential...

Nelson A Rockefeller: It is essential...

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in...

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William Proxmire: The poor taxpayer...

William Proxmire: The poor taxpayer...

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full...

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Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Source: On her...

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