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Rig Veda

Rig Veda

Wake up with one mind,

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.
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Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

We don't point a pistol

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Josef Stalin

Josef Stalin

A single death is a

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
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Lazarus Long

Lazarus Long

Be wary of strong drink.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
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Rubenacres & Allenacres

Rubenacres & Allenacres

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga
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Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Vanderbilt

And it came to me,

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me.
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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

I am in earnest; I

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
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Jim Fiebig

Jim Fiebig

All the taxes paid over

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
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Huzaifa

Huzaifa

I Donot expect anything from

I Donot expect anything from anyone ; Cause they Hurts
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Robert P. Vanderpoel

Robert P. Vanderpoel

The most successful businessman is

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Dave Barry

Dave Barry

All the big corporations depreciate

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
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Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem

Work to survive, survive by

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume the hellish cycle is complete.
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Huzaifa Asif

Huzaifa Asif

Know Huzaifa, Know Life ;

Know Huzaifa, Know Life ; No Huzaifa, No Life ;)
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William Penn

William Penn

True silence is the rest

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

All [zoos] actually offer to

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
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Frank Vanderlip

Frank Vanderlip

A conservative is a man

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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Drew Eric Whitman

Drew Eric Whitman

Be grateful for the positive

Be grateful for the positive things in your life... right now, today... while you still have them.
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Theophile Gautier

Theophile Gautier

Who can believe that there

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
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Norman Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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Jason B.

Jason B.

don't judge a man by

don't judge a man by the color of his skin,but by his actinos
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Amy Vanderbilt

Amy Vanderbilt

Do not smoke without asking

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
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Sir Compton MacKenzie

Sir Compton MacKenzie

The only mystery about the

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal
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George Lois

George Lois

Creativity can solve almost any

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
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