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Hosea Ballou: Doubt is the...

Hosea Ballou: Doubt is the...

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Henry Ward Beecher: It is not...

Henry Ward Beecher: It is not...

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Source:...

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Sydney Smith: In composing, as...

Sydney Smith: In composing, as...

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor...

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Douglas Adams: There is a...

Douglas Adams: There is a...

There is a theory that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by...

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Vance Palmer: The voice of...

Vance Palmer: The voice of...

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless...

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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of...

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James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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Martin Amis: For myself and...

Martin Amis: For myself and...

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about...

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David Hume: A wise man,...

David Hume: A wise man,...

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Source: In The...

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Earl Warren: The man of...

Earl Warren: The man of...

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the...

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A E Housman: And silence sounds...

A E Housman: And silence sounds...

And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.


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S I Hayakawa: If you see...

S I Hayakawa: If you see...

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of...

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Arthur J Goldberg: Law not served...

Arthur J Goldberg: Law not served...

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: The less routine...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The less routine...

The less routine the more life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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W C Sellar: Do not on...

W C Sellar: Do not on...

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

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