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Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
46
Mario Cuomo
Democracy is not meant to
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
35
Juvenal
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy,
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
15
Charles Lauller
The longest mile I ever
The longest mile I ever ran was the mile I ran with Cedar Fever!
34
Dean Koontz
Some people think only intellect
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
21
Nancy Astor
My vigor, vitality, and cheek
My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
23
Mehmet Murat Ildan
The key to success is
The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!
49
Juvenal
Lost money is bewailed with
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
19
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
A friendship founded on business
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
30
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
147
L Estrange
There are braying men in
There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what?s loud and senseless talking, huffing, and swearing any other than a more fashionable way of braying?
23
Mehmet Murat Ildan
History respects revolutions; and yet,
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!
59
Che Guevara
I know you have come
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.
151
Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
23
John A. Carter
Fly so high with my
Fly so high with my feet never leaving the ground.
18
L Estrange
When men will not be
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.
18
Charlie Kaufman
We are what we love,
We are what we love, not what loves us.
76
Patrick Henry
Is life so dear, or
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
86
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Show me a clever nation;
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
46
L Estrange
Some people, you would think,
Some people, you would think, are made up of nothing but title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners.
19
Chinese Proverb
A thousand cups of wine
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
72
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music--the one incorporeal entrance into
Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.
83
La Bruyere
It is the character of
It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.
19
Siddharth Astir
In trying circumstances..... never let
In trying circumstances..... never let someone down and always pick yourself up
22