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William D. Snow
Quick, cheap, or good, pick
Quick, cheap, or good, pick two.
30
Barbara Ehrenreich
America is addicted to wars
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
89
Wilhelm Stekel
The mark of the immature
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause. The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
48
Jeanette Winterson
They say that every snowflake
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on How could we ever get up off our knees How could we ever recover from the wonder of it
36
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I don't think there's any
I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess that we thought we had a little more time.
45
William Hazlitt
It is hard for any
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
90
William Hazlitt
Grace in women has more
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
103
Stanislaw Lem
Cannibals prefer those who have
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
56
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
191
William Hazlitt
Lest he should wander irretrievably
Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
97
William Hazlitt
Good temper is an estate
Good temper is an estate for life.
112
Edith Hamilton
The anthropologists are busy, indeed,
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.
33
William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
100
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sea, washing the equator
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
182
Charles Schaefer
We are never more fully
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
27
William Hazlitt
As is our confidence, so
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
104
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knew anything,
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
163
William Hazlitt
We are not hypocrites in
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
111
Barbara J. Winter
When you come to the
When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.
36
William Hazlitt
We are very much what
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
85
Vikrant Parsai
Credit is what enables people
Credit is what enables people to pay 20% to 35% extra for that product which they probably don't need.
77
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
149
William James
Much of what we call
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
108
Linnaeus
Nature does not proceed by
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
93