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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
Confidence
Franklin P. Adams

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A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.
Sex
Woody Allen

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
Life and Living
Maya Angelou

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If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Asimov

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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Democracy
Dave Barry

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Truth
William Blake

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
Truth
William Blake

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
Truth
William Blake

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What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
Secrets
Chinese Proverb

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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
Religion
William Cowper

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
President
Clarence Darrow

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Youth
Charles Dickens

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Freedom
W. N. Ewer

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Work
Jim Fox

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
Change
Joan Gilbertson

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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Miracles
Elbert Hubbard

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Action
Victor Hugo

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Grief
C. S. Lewis

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life and Living
Ogden Nash

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Gossip
Alexander Pope

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If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Effort
Pope John I

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
Life and Living
William Shakespeare

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
Life and Living
William Shakespeare

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Business
Edwin H. Stuart

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Heaven
Jonathan Swift

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun