Favourite Quotes

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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• Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Silence, Sound, Quiet

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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Horse, Women

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Real, Years

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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Belief, Writers And Writing

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

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• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humility, Pride

  "On the 8th Day - God Laughed". Book by Gene Perret, p. 95, 1995.

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• I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humorous, Intelligence

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• I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, War, Book

  "Sorry, But Speed Reading Won't Help You Read More" by Mark Seidenberg, www.wired.com. January 24, 2017.

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Astrology, Looks, Economic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Shapes, Refuse

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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• Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mean Girls, Wisdom, Voice

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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• The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

  Ayn Rand

  Intellectual, Liberty, Argument

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.56, Penguin

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• Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Biblical, Beer

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agreement, Cynicism, Altruism

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• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Honesty, Humor

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• In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Archaeology

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• 'Someday' is the day after you die.

  Steve Pavlina

  Someday, Dies

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• A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

  Pablo de Sarasate

  Years, Practice, Musician

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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