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All Quotes Collection


"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."
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"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."
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"I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day."
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"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."
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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."
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"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
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"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
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"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
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"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn."
40

"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment."
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"Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight."
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"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected."
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"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness."
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"You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win."
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"After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit."
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"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."
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"You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell."
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"As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl."
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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
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"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
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"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases."
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"One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else."
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"When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here."
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"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."
49

"I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went."
44

"We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines."
30

"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding."
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"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."
35

"I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country."
33

"More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone."
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