Confucius Quotes
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Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
Nate Holland
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
Manny Pacquiao
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
John Ralston Saul
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Marianne Williamson
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Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.
Charles Dickens
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The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.
Wright Morris
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I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
Wanda Jackson
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A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius
