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his day, Today, was a brimming glass.
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Auteur inconnu
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top all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
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Auteur inconnu
63 votes
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
[ Choice ]
A Course In Miracles
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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
[ Change ]
A Course In Miracles
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94 votes
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
[ Performance ]
Hank Aaron
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
[ Patriotism ]
Edward Abbey
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91 votes
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
[ Competition ]
Jim Abbott
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98 votes
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
[ Mercy ]
Lyman Abbott
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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
[ Communication ]
Creighton Abrams
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78 votes
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
[ Management ]
Dean Acheson
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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
[ Negotiation ]
Dean Acheson
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83 votes
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
[ Faith ]
Saint Thomas Acquinas
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
[ Power ]
Lord Acton
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72 votes
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
[ Society ]
Lord Acton
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93 votes
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
[ Power ]
Abigail Adams
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97 votes
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
[ Learning ]
Abigail Adams
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80 votes
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
[ Words ]
Abigail Adams
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
[ Airplane and Aviation ]
Douglas Adams
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86 votes
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
[ Confidence ]
Franklin P. Adams
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72 votes
Too much truth is uncouth.
[ Truth ]
Franklin P. Adams
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61 votes
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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83 votes
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
[ Possibilities ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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86 votes
They know enough who know how to learn.
[ Education ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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78 votes
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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71 votes
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.
[ Advertising ]
James R. Adams
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75 votes
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
[ Worry ]
James Truslow Adams
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80 votes
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
John Adams
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84 votes
I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
[ Uncategorised ]
John Adams
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86 votes
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
[ Mind ]
John Adams
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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
[ Education ]
John Adams
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83 votes
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
[ Support ]
Richard Adams
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80 votes
Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
[ Energy ]
Sheryl Adams
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63 votes
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
[ Passion ]
Thomas Adams
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79 votes
'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
[ Merit ]
Joseph Addison
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
[ Honor ]
Joseph Addison
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85 votes
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Joseph Addison
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76 votes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
[ Despair ]
Joseph Addison
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73 votes
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
[ Knowledge ]
Joseph Addison
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84 votes
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
[ Modesty ]
Joseph Addison
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76 votes
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
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86 votes
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
[ Laughter ]
Joseph Addison
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84 votes
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
[ Editing and Editors ]
Joseph Addison
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67 votes
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
[ Jealousy ]
Joseph Addison
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74 votes
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
[ Beauty ]
Joseph Addison
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75 votes
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
[ Solitude ]
Joseph Addison
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91 votes
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
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80 votes
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
[ Patriotism ]
Joseph Addison
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78 votes
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
[ Education ]
Joseph Addison
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80 votes
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
[ Benefactors ]
Joseph Addison
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89 votes
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
[ Posterity ]
George Ade
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66 votes