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218 quotesEach new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Civilization
Hervey Allen
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Greatness
James Allen
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery
Minna Antrim
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Reason
St. Thomas Aquinas
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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Ignorance
Arabian Proverb
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Justice
Aristotle
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Self-confidence
Arthur Ashe
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Abstinence
St. Augustine
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Moderation
St. Augustine
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Men and Women
Jane Austen
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Time and Time Management
Faith Baldwin
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Exaggeration
Hosea Ballou
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Work
Charles Baudelaire
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Repentance
Henry Ward Beecher
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Sacrifice
Sir Max Beerbohm
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Walter Benjamin
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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
Science and Scientists
P. L. Berger
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The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
Inspiration
Bible
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Praise
Ambrose Bierce
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
Medicine
Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Business
Ambrose Bierce
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Deliberation
Ambrose Bierce
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Exaggeration
Josh Billings
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Life and Living
Corrie Ten Boom
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Growth
Elizabeth Bowen
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun