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- [A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other “modern means of communication” ... can wait...
- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception...
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and...
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and...
- A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is...
- A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. ...
- A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic...
- A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though...
- A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of...
- A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question...
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ...
- A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him...
- A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. ...
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ...
- A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the...
- A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ...
- A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright...
- Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men: if any friend desire...
- Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ...
- All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954) ...
- All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have...
- All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these...
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ...
- An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end...
- And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for...
- Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which...
- Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which...
- Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. ...
- Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like...
- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ...
- Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to...
- At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but...
- Baby: A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ...
- Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ...
- Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more...
- Behind an able man there are always other able men. ...
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes...
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. ...
- Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human...
- Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This...
- Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. ...
- Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible. ...
- Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an...
- But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each...
- Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. ...
- Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other. ...
- Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages...
- Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under...
- Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ...
- Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that...
- Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ...
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong...
- Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire...
- Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. ...
- Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as...
- Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If...
- Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. ...
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ...
- Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ...
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can...
- Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past...
- Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for...
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. ...
- Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes...
- Economics is war pursued by other means. ...
- Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has...
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have...
- Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. ...
- Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved...
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to...
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons....
- Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest...
- Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ...
- Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ...
- Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. ...
- For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can...
- For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the...
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the...
- For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life....
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is...
- For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to...
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human...
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ...
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same...
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. ...
- Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ...
- From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some...
- From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when...
- General Grant had a simple, childlike [recipe] for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow...
- God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not...
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to...
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things...
- God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things...
- God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly...
- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other...
- Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so...
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of...
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of...
- Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way. ...
- Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking...
- Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. ...
- Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you....
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ...
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of...
- Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and...
- He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor...
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound...
- He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion,...
- Hell is other people. ...
- History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ...
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ...
- How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what...
- Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the...
- Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they...
- I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your...
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the...
- I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are...
- I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a...
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous...
- I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not...
- I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would...
- I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to...
- I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to...
- I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before...
- I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality...
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own...
- I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things...
- I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. - Journals ...
- I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell...
- I had it all, and I blew it. (shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism) ...
- I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I...
- I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and...
- I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by...
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do....
- I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love....
- I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man...
- I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate - that's political scar tissue. ...
- I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams,...
- I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day; and take...
- Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits...
- If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick...
- If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might...
- If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. ...
- If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ...
- If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say,...
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing...
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ...
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ...
- If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. ...
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ...
- If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire...
- I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a...
- In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These...
- In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions: A boy can pass...
- In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ...
- In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other...
- In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be...
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of...
- In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. ...
- In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination,...
- Information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine. ...
- Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own...
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is...
- It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own....
- It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man...
- It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see...
- It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other...
- It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other....
- It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one...
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander...
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it...
- It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets...
- It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely...
- I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. ...
- Just being happy helps other souls along; Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong; And your own...
- Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's...
- Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other. ...
- Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed...
- Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything...
- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together...
- Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. ...
- Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. ...
- Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans. ...
- Life is what happens while you are making other plans. ...
- Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods...
- Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an...
- Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in...
- Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier. ...
- Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. ...
- Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ...
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ...
- Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ...
- Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. ...
- Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort...
- Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings...
- Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to...
- Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the...
- Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the...
- Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I...
- Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs...
- Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ...
- Many people chase after success. Other[s] pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's...
- Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man....
- Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The...
- Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements. ...
- Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ...
- Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had...
- Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. ...
- Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether...
- Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church; they suspect and dislike the clergy: they are impatient of theological...
- Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is...
- Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive...
- Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other...
- Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. ...
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and...
- More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the...
- More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the...
- More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact...
- Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in...
- Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace....
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation....
- My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and...
- My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ...
- Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants...
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ...
- New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common....
- No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of...
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other...
- No man ever quite believes in any other man. ...
- No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of...
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ...
- No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. ...
- No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is...
- Nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the...
- Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that...
- Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance...
- Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly...
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ...
- Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its...
- Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something...
- Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful...
- One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that...
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ...
- One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings...
- One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of...
- One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct...
- One's own self conquered is better than all other people. ...
- Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself. ...
- Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ...
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of...
- Our children are not going to be just “our children” - they are going to be other people's husbands...
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure....
- Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters. ...
- Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and...
- Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up. ...
- Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. ...
- Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with...
- Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from...
- Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. ...
- Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own...
- People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still...
- People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what...
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
- Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time....
- Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of...
- Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising...
- Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to...
- Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a...
- Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand,...
- Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . ....
- Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ...
- Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. ...
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ...
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one...
- Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant. ...
- Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. ...
- Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one...
- Silence is argument carried out by other means. ...
- So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something...
- So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ...
- Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil...
- Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ...
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just...
- Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging...
- Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit,...
- Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put...
- Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord. ...
- Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be...
- Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be...
- Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. ...
- That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you....
- The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs....
- The Holy Spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the...
- The Negro says, “Now.” Others say, “Never.” The voice of responsible Americans ... says, “Together.” There is no other...
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather...
- The air is full of souls; those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies...
- The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not afte
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