Samuel Johnson Quotes
Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
Samuel Johnson
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Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
T. S. Eliot
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
Bea Arthur
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Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
Aldous Huxley
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one's very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgment and observation are required. But the effect is just the opposite. Instead of producing a dissipated condition, the mind is fertilized and stimulated and developed like sun-fed plants.
John Muir
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
Samuel Johnson
