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496 quotesOur failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Failure
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
Laziness
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Risk
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Bureaucracy
Gore Vidal
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Envy
Gore Vidal
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]
Famous Last Words
Pancho Villa
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
Metaphysics
Voltaire
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Adventure
Voltaire
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Food and Eating
Peter De Vries
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Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Choice
Denis Waitley
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Ritual
Derek Walcott
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Complaints and Complaining
Joe Walsh
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No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
Possibilities
Bill Walton
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It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
Greatness
James Watson
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Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Creation
Geri Weitzman
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Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Miracles
Chaim. Weizmann
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When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Difficulties
Orson Welles
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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Action
Alfred North Whitehead
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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Flowers
Walt Whitman
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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Children
Dr. Who
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
Travel and Tourism
Oscar Wilde
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Housework
Oscar Wilde
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Interviews
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun