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218 quotesThe more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Institutions
George Santayana
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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Power
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
Preparation
Robert H. Schuller
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A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Crime and Criminals
Howard Scott
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The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
Preparation
David Searles
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A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
Operation
Dr. Richard Selzer
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Power
Seneca
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William Shakespeare
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Exaggeration
George Bernard Shaw
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Trust in your preparation.
Preparation
Davie Sheppard
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Manners
William Gilmore Simms
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Youth
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Books - Reading
Steven Spielberg
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Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
Moderation
Harvey Steiman
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No one wants advice, only corroboration.
Advice
John Steinbeck
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Generations
Adlai E. Stevenson
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politicians and Politics
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
Opportunity
Publilius Syrus
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Moderation
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Conventionality
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Life and Living
Henry David Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Desperation
Henry David Thoreau
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Resignation
Henry David Thoreau
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Ignorance
John Tillotson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun