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top all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
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Auteur inconnu
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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
[ Peace ]
A Course In Miracles
A Course In Miracles books
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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
[ Change ]
A Course In Miracles
A Course In Miracles books
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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
[ Culture ]
John Abbott
John Abbott books
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The highest qualities of character must be earned.
[ Character ]
Lyman Abbott
Lyman Abbott books
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The most important thing about goals is having one.
[ Goals ]
Geoffrey F. Abert
Geoffrey F. Abert books
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I keep reading between the lies.
[ Newspapers ]
Goodman Ace
Goodman Ace books
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
[ Management ]
Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson books
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
[ Power ]
Abigail Adams
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
[ Books - Reading ]
Dawn Adams
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
[ Health ]
Franklin P. Adams
Franklin P. Adams books
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
[ Inflation ]
Franklin P. Adams
Franklin P. Adams books
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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.
[ Advertising ]
James R. Adams
James R. Adams books
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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
[ Worry ]
James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams books
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
John Adams
John Adams books
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Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
[ Liberty ]
John Adams
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
[ Power ]
John Adams
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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Scott Adams
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81 votes
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
[ Contentment ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
[ Marriage ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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90 votes
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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75 votes
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
[ Knowledge ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
[ Inconsistency ]
Joseph Addison
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88 votes
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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77 votes
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
[ Stardom ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
[ Dress ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
[ Business ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
[ Beauty ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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74 votes
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
[ Solitude ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
[ Winners and Winning ]
George Ade
George Ade books
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
[ Service ]
George Ade
George Ade books
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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
[ Present ]
George Ade
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The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
George Ade
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The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
[ Negotiation ]
Konrad Adenauer
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
[ Humankind ]
Konrad Adenauer
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
[ Argument ]
Larry Adler
Larry Adler books
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48 votes
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
[ Freedom ]
Mortimer J. Adler
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
[ Books - Reading ]
Mortimer J. Adler
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
[ Promises ]
Aeschylus
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
[ Kindness ]
Aeschylus
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
[ Danger ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
[ Expectation ]
Aesop
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Example is the best precept.
[ Example ]
Aesop
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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
[ Discontent ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Little by little does the trick.
[ Things and Little Things ]
Aesop
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
[ Adversity ]
Aesop
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
[ Difficulties ]
Publius Terentius Afer
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