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256 quotesMemorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Funerals
Harold Macmillan
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Liberty
James Madison
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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.
Responsibility
Bill Maher
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Problems
Joseph De Maistre
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help
Modesty
Miss Manners
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Possibilities
Orison Swett Marden
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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Opportunity
Cotton Mather
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Candor
Marshall Mcluhan
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Colleges and Universities
H. L. Mencken
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Certainty
George Meredith
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Beauty
Michelangelo
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Cities and City Life
Michelangelo
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Recreation
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Self-pity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
Personality
Henry Morgan
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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.
Leaders and Leadership
Motto
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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Vision
Lewis Mumford
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Uncategorised
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
Madness
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
Leaders and Leadership
Jules Ormont
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The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Doctors
Sir William Osler
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Ceremony
Blaise Pascal
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Simplicity
Norman Vincent Peale
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Cooperation
M. Scott Peck
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun