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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
[ Ancestry ]
Fred A. Allen
Fred A. Allen books
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86 votes
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
[ Growth ]
R. C. Allen
R. C. Allen books
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56 votes
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
[ Ignorance ]
American Proverb
American Proverb books
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77 votes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
[ Action ]
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou books
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61 votes
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
[ Death and Dying ]
Arabian Proverb
Arabian Proverb books
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75 votes
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
[ Dreams ]
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold books
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52 votes
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
[ Freedom ]
Sir Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold books
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72 votes
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
[ Justice ]
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood books
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66 votes
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
[ Truth ]
St. Augustine
St. Augustine books
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46 votes
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
[ God ]
St. Augustine
St. Augustine books
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68 votes
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
[ Fear ]
Grandma Axiom
Grandma Axiom books
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60 votes
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin books
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46 votes
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
[ Regret ]
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball books
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48 votes
Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
[ Appraisal ]
James A. Belasco
James A. Belasco books
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38 votes
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
[ Power ]
Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen Vincent Benet books
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62 votes
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
[ Story and Story-Telling ]
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin books
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68 votes
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
[ Marriage ]
Jill Bennett
Jill Bennett books
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49 votes
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
[ Originality ]
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett books
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70 votes
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger books
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40 votes
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
[ Failure ]
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Kenneth Ewart Boulding books
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58 votes
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
[ Frigidity ]
Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice books
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63 votes
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
[ Courage ]
Les Brown
Les Brown books
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42 votes
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
[ Fear ]
Les Brown
Les Brown books
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59 votes
You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.
[ Circumstance ]
Harry Browne
Harry Browne books
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61 votes
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
[ Beauty ]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning books
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61 votes
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
[ Change ]
Lyman L. Bryson
Lyman L. Bryson books
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70 votes
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
[ Feelings ]
John Buchan
John Buchan books
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90 votes
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
[ Action ]
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett books
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47 votes
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
[ Life and Living ]
George Burns
George Burns books
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49 votes
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Burton books
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39 votes
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
[ Wisdom ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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57 votes
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
[ Feminism ]
Angela Carter
Angela Carter books
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41 votes
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
[ Passion ]
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort books
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42 votes
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
[ Education ]
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing books
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50 votes
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
[ Belief ]
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield books
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59 votes
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
[ Angels ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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55 votes
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
[ Reality ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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41 votes
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
[ Argument ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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40 votes
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
[ Terrorism ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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46 votes
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
[ Age and Aging ]
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie books
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35 votes
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
[ Courage ]
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill books
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56 votes
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
[ God ]
E. M. Cioran
E. M. Cioran books
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45 votes
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
[ Happiness ]
Stuart Cloete
Stuart Cloete books
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60 votes
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Harold Clurman
Harold Clurman books
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42 votes
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
John Churton Collins
John Churton Collins books
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56 votes
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
[ Humankind ]
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings books
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38 votes
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
[ Imagination ]
Donald Curtis
Donald Curtis books
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50 votes
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
[ Excellence ]
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci books
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44 votes
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
Dandemis
Dandemis books
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44 votes
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
[ Facts ]
Danish Proverb
Danish Proverb books
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70 votes