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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Q X Y ZFor this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
Author: Plato Look
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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Author: Spike Milligan, The Goons Look
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Author: Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech Look
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Author: Jules Renard Look
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Author: Mark Twain Look
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Look
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Finish each 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. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed) Look
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Author: Doug Larson Look
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Free advice is worth the price.
Author: Robert Half Look
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Look
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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Author: Frantz Fanon Look
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
Author: A. J. Liebling Look
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Look
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Facts are stupid things.
Author: Ronald Reagan Look
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale Look
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University Look
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Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Author: Unknown Look
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Author: Jean Paul Richter Look
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Author: Thomas Jones Look
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Author: George Carlin Look
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