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776 quotesIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
Possibilities
Henry Brooks Adams
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Men and Women
Henry Brooks Adams
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Jealousy
Joseph Addison
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Benefactors
Joseph Addison
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Posterity
George Ade
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Enemies
Aesop
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Learning
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Bores and Boredom
Thomas B. Aldrich
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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Contentment
Fred A. Allen
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Pride
Fred A. Allen
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
Death and Dying
Woody Allen
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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
Marriage
Woody Allen
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
Despair
A. Alvarez
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Every man is his own chief enemy.
Danger
Anacharsis
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Change
Maya Angelou
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Envy
Antisthenes
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Will and Will Power
St. Thomas Aquinas
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A friend is known when needed.
Friends and Friendship
Arabian Proverb
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Politicians and Politics
John Arbuthnot
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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Suffering
Richard Armour
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Freedom
Sir Edwin Arnold
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Tragedies
Antonin Artaud
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
Biography
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Things and Little Things
Daisy Ashford
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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
Work, Hard
Evelyn Ashford
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun