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Fire and swords...

Fire and swords...

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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You cannot paint...

You cannot paint...

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

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A man's wife...

A man's wife...

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

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An exhaustive study...

An exhaustive study...

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the...

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Ideological differences are...

Ideological differences are...

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Source: Miss Manner's Guide to...

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Miyamoto Musashi: With your spirit...

Miyamoto Musashi: With your spirit...

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

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Benjamin Cardozo: Consequences cannot alter...

Benjamin Cardozo: Consequences cannot alter...

Consequences cannot alter statues, but may help to fix their meaning.

Source: In...

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: Western civilization, Christianity,...

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: Western civilization, Christianity,...

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race...

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The notion that...

The notion that...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art. . . is merely romantic fiction. . . . The game...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: You must not...

Napoleon Bonaparte: You must not...

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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Carl Linnaeus: Nature does not...

Carl Linnaeus: Nature does not...

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Noam Chomsky: If we don't...

Noam Chomsky: If we don't...

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at...

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Leon Trotsky: Life is not...

Leon Trotsky: Life is not...

Life is not an easy matter. . . . You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you...

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Leon Trotsky: Old age is...

Leon Trotsky: Old age is...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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When the anchorman...

When the anchorman...

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

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Muhammad Ali: I hated every...

Muhammad Ali: I hated every...

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a...

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Isaac Asimov: It pays to...

Isaac Asimov: It pays to...

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Incomprehensible jargon is...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: Incomprehensible jargon is...

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Source: In Quotable...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: People who have...

Friedrich Nietzsche: People who have...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a...

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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Use what talents...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Use what talents...

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang...

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