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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.
[ Goals ]
Geoffrey F. Abert
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
[ Temptation ]
Joey Adams
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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 English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
James Agate
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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.
[ Success ]
M. H. Alderson
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
[ Rock and Roll ]
Ian Anderson
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
[ Photography ]
Diane Arbus
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
[ Neighbors ]
Pietro Aretino
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
[ Attitude ]
Louis Armstrong
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Paddy Ashdown
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
[ America ]
Ruben Askew
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
[ Wealth ]
Lady Nancy Astor
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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
[ Past ]
Kenneth Auchincloss
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
[ Creation ]
St. Augustine
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
[ Miracles ]
St. Augustine
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
[ Character ]
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
[ Age and Aging ]
Lucille Ball
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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
[ Individuality ]
Ethel Barrett
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
Bernard M. Baruch
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
[ Computers ]
Jean Baudrillard
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
[ Argument ]
Pierre De Beaumarchais
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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
[ Death and Dying ]
Ben Becht
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
[ Destiny ]
Samuel Beckett
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
[ Nonsense ]
Sir Max Beerbohm
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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
[ Music ]
Sir Max Beerbohm
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I have just about all I can take of myself.
[ Self-respect ]
S. Behrman
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
[ Knowledge ]
Robert Benchley
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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
[ Success ]
Irving Berlin
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It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
[ The future ]
Yogi Berra
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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
[ Oceans ]
Ambrose Bierce
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
[ Fidelity ]
Ambrose Bierce
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
[ Childhood ]
Ambrose Bierce
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
[ Law Suits ]
Ambrose Bierce
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
[ Planning ]
Ambrose Bierce
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
[ Eloquence ]
Josh Billings
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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
[ Enjoyment ]
Matt Biondi
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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
[ Excellence ]
Ken Blanchard
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
[ Learning ]
Roy Jr. Blount
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The whole world is about three drinks behind.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Humphrey Bogart
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
[ Prediction ]
Niels Bohr
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
[ Marriage ]
Pat Boone
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To reason about love is to lose reason.
[ Reason ]
Boufflers
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
[ Cities and City Life ]
Joseph Brodsky
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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
[ Life and Living ]
Joseph Brodsky
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
[ Introspection ]
Anita Brookner
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
[ Atheism ]
Heywood Broun
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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
[ Self-love ]
David Brown
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A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.
[ Feminism ]
Julie Burchill
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
[ Marriage ]
Barbara Bush
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