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“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
Edmund Burke
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
E. B. White
“I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.”
Mitch Hedberg
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
Dalai Lama
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Addair”
George Addair
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
Thomas J. Watson
““Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you
right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.””― Harvey MacKay
“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
H. G. Wells
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Priyanka
“You can always tell someone to go to Hell tomorrow.”
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Charlie Munger
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
George Washington
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
Sophocles
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
William Shakespeare
“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”
Thomas Aquinas
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
Sigmund Freud
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
Buddha
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
Thomas Fuller
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”
Ronald Reagan