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26 quotesChildren's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Children
Maya Angelou
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Time and Time Management
Faith Baldwin
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Opinions
William Blake
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Tact and Tactfulness
Miguel De Cervantes
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
Tact and Tactfulness
Miguel De Cervantes
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Age and Aging
Maurice Chevalier
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Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Caution
Chinese Proverb
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Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Faults
Confucius
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Character
Benjamin Disraeli
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Achievement
George Eliot
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Past
T. S. Eliot
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Coward and Cowardice
Queen's Mother Elizabeth
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Energy and persistence alter all things.
Energy
Benjamin Franklin
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What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
Endurance
Thomas Fuller
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Politicians and Politics
Emma Goldman
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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
Happiness
Doug Horton
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Museums and Galleries
Henry James
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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
Force
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Feminism
Sally Kempton
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Moderation
Henry Kissinger
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A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
Discipline
Proverb
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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.
Travel and Tourism
Source Unknown
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion
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