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“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

“It is hard to be brave when you're only a Very Small Animal.”

“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, play is Y and Z is keeping your mouth shut”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth the writing”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”

“Every individual is an exception to the rule.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”

“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”

“A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth”

“It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting process”

“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for”

“The soul is healed by being with children”

“All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence.”

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”

“History is more or less bunk.”

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step”

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

“Make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”

“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man.”

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”

“Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“All warfare is based on deception.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools.”

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm themselves at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke coming from the chimney.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”

“Let us cultivate our garden”

“One dies twice, I see it plainly; to cease to love and be loved is an unbearable death; to cease to live is nothing”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

“All we've got is cotton, and slaves and...arrogance.”

“Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary.”

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

“Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.”

“Here's looking at you, kid.”

“He's dead, Jim.”

“I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.”

“I love you." / "I know.”

“If you build it, he will come.”

“I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

“Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things any worse by guessing.”

“Lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow.”

“Lunch is for wimps.”

“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”

“Momma says stupid is as stupid does.”

“Money never sleeps, pal.”

“No! Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”

“Now you know why they call me 'Dirty Harry'. I get every dirty job that comes along.”

“People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”

“Round up the usual suspects.”

“Run, Forrest! Run!”

“So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”

“Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

“There's no place like home.”

“This was no boating accident.”

“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”

“You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it.”

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once.”

“Crazy-busy is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.”

“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.”

“Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.”

“A teacher, a really good sensei, is never a giver of 'truth'; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself.”

“Be water, my friend.”

“Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

“There are two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Thy will be done.'”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“Fashion is always a reflection of the times, but it is forgotten if it is foolish.”

“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”

“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”

“Where should one use perfume? Wherever one wants to be kissed.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“My true religion is Kindness.”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

“Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help.”

“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is.”

“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you.”

“All art is propaganda.”

“Every joke is a tiny revolution.”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

“Ich bin ein Berliner.”

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.”

“Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum.”

“So it goes.”

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

“It's not quite true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

“I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”

“Without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

“Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see.”

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

“I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived.”

“I'm so fast last night I cut the light switch and was in bed before the room was dark.”

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.”

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things”

“Strong people always have strong weaknesses too”

“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it”

“The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things”

“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer”

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”

“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics”

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course”

“Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready.'”

“I wonder what chairs think about all day: 'Oh, here comes another asshole.'”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”

“Real artists ship.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action”

“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs”

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy”

“The quality of your life is the quality of your communication”

“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity.”

“You will never win if you have to prove that you are the winner.”

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender”

“Failure is an event, not a person.”

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”