Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon) Quotes
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
T. S. Eliot
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam Sandler
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I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
ASAP Rocky
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Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.
S. J. Perelman
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Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.
Shailene Woodley
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He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle
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I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
Lennox Lewis
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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
Plato
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
John Milton
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I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
