John Webster Quotes
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
Zara Larsson
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
Vik Muniz
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
Brigitte Bardot
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Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-Powell
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
