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464 quotesI stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Fathers
Anais Nin
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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
Medicine
Richard M. Nixon
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Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
Media
Chris O'Donnell
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I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
Motivation
Akeem Olajuwon
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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
Excellence
Sir Lawrence Olivier
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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
Gifts
Ovid
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Past
Ovid
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Reason
Ovid
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Fame
Cecil Parkinson
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
Work
Rosa Parks
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Audiences
Thomas Love Peacock
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Waste
Thomas Love Peacock
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
Thoughts and Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale
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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.
Change
John Petworth
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Puritans
Wendell Phillips
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Arts and Artists
Pablo Picasso
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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Ability
Earl Pitts
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Science and Scientists
Plato
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Uncategorised
Plutarch
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Disappointments
Alexander Pope
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Faith
Alexander Pope
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
Sex
Alexander Pope
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Wit
Alexander Pope
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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
Cheating
O. Henry Porter
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun