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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Written by H. G. Wells
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Written by Fran Lebowitz
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Written by Gertrude Stein
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Written by Henry James
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Written by Arthur C. Clarke
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Written by Adlai E. Stevenson
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Written by Dave Barry
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Written by Voltaire
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Written by Winston Churchill
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Written by Oscar Wilde
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Written by Marge Piercy
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Written by Spiro T. Agnew
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Written by Aesop
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Written by Michel de Montaigne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Written by Judy Garland
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Written by Novalis
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Written by William Ernest Hocking
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Written by William Feather
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Written by Buddha
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Written by Joseph Roux
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Written by Stephen Covey
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Written by Karl Kraus
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Written by Alec Waugh
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Written by Alexis Carrel

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