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81 quotesNothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Consult duty not events.
Duty
Walter Savage Landor
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Literature is analysis after the event.
Literature
Doris Lessing
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Books - Reading
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Circumstance
Titus Livy
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There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Libraries
Thomas L. Masson
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Being seventy is not a sin.
Age and Aging
Golda Meir
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Government
Lord Melbourne
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Change
Menander of Athens
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Happiness
Alice Meynell
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Law and Lawyers
Charles De Montesquieu
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Adversity
Apollo 13 Movie
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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Belief
Mike Murdock
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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
Vision
Edward R. Murrow
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
Newspapers
George Orwell
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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
Glory
Thomas Paine
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Life and Living
Hugh Prather
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
Prayer
Proverb
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Danger
Francis Quarles
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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Adolescence
Arthur Rimbaud
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Circumstance
Anthony Robbins
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Gossip
Eleanor Roosevelt
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie
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The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
Preparation
David Searles
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Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
Truth
Harold Sherman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun