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226 quotesIf an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Habit
Horace Mann
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Business
Jim Manzi
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Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
Solitude
Andrew Marvell
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The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Temper
Addison Mizner
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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wilson Mizner
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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Anger
Wilson Mizner
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
Poverty and The Poor
George Moore
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Fashion
Christopher Morley
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Prayer
Mother Teresa
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Friends and Friendship
Hector Hugh Munro
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Children
Ogden Nash
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash
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If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
Women
Cynthia Nelms
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I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
Mergers
David Ogilvy
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
School
George Orwell
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Love
Blaise Pascal
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Family
V. S. Pritchett
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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Confession
Proverb
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
Popularity
Proverb
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Reputation
Francis Quarles
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Manners
Sir Walter Raleigh
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Speech
Frederic Raphael
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Business
Ronald Reagan
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My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Movies
Burt Reynolds
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
Love
Adrienne Rich
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun