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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
Goals
Percy H. Johnson

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Architecture
Philip Johnson

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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
Choice
Philip Johnson

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Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
Problems
R. W. Johnson

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Food and Eating
Samuel Johnson

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Samuel Johnson

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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
Preachers and Preaching
Samuel Johnson

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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Public Opinion
Samuel Johnson

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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Wonder
Samuel Johnson

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Courage
Samuel Johnson

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Christians and Christianity
Samuel Johnson

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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Heroes and Heroism
Samuel Johnson

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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Critics and Criticism
Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson

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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Perspective
Samuel Johnson

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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
Calamity
Samuel Johnson

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson

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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Quotations
Samuel Johnson

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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Focus
Samuel Johnson

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Perseverance
Samuel Johnson

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson

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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Wisdom
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun