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Most Accessed Quotes in our system - 481 to 500
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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
Subject:
Death
Thinking
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Life
Beauty
Mortality
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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Time
American Presidential Quotes
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Words
Action
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Author:
Barack Obama
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'The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness, beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino;a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term friend.' -John Gilbert
Author:
Rudolph Valentino
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Author:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subject:
Common Sense
Perseverance
American Presidential Quotes
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Mankind
Human Nature
Animal
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Freedom
American Presidential Quotes
Nation
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Age
Mind
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Arrogance
Work: Notebooks (1935)
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Author:
Voltaire
Subject:
Ambition
Books
Reading
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Lies
Memory
American Presidential Quotes
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Americans
American Presidential Quotes
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Author:
Socrates
Subject:
Words
Action
Criticism
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I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Advice
Fool
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Marriage
Age
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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Peace
Mind
Spiritual
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Crime
Sports & Competition
Justice
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Violence
American Presidential Quotes
Work: In a speech at the White House, 1962
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