Today's Quote

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Classic Quotes by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) U.S. writer

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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The family is a haven in a heartless world.

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Classic Quotes by George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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Big Brother is watching you.

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." - John Cleese

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"Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising
the voice."

--Stanley Horowitz

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"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters
of the earth. We did not weave the web of life; we are
merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to
ourselves."

--Chief Sealth

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An analogy isn't the same thing as being the same thing.

--The Economist

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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why
it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough

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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding
something to live for, great enough to die for."
--Dag Hammarskjold

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"There is never time to do it right, but there is always
time to do it over."
--Carl W. Buechner