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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."

Robert Davies

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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

Buddha

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”

Ernest Hemingway

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'Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.'

Winston Churchill

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"How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!"

Charles James Fox

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"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."

Max Beerbohm

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"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."

Richard Whately

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"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."

Honore De Balzac

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement."

Arthur Conan Doyle

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“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”

Davy Crockett

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'By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.'

Galileo Galilei

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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
Shana Alexander

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"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."

Rachel Blanchard


So true! :nod:

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"We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song."

Elizabeth Fishel

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"A song is a poem set to music."

Tom T Hall

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"Where words fail, music speaks."

Hans Christian Andersen

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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."

Jean Cocteau

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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

Oscar Wilde

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'It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.'

Honore de Balzac

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

~John Archibald Wheeler

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'Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her - but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

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"The game isn't over until it's over."

Yogi Berra

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'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

Albert Einstein

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"To achieve more and better results, more resourcefulness is as important as more resources."

Tony Alessandra

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.


Adrienne Rich

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"Once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a for to be feared (of)."

Thomas Kuhn

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Your word would be of, darlin', not feared. :)


"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

Charles Dickens

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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

Erich Segal

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'Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.'

Theodore Roosevelt

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:wave2-2:@K'Lyn, wasn't sure if I was allowed to end with such a common word such as "of"; see a response given to one of my earlier quotations below (#4350) Is there a rule against this?:thinking: ...just asking.:jossun:






"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

George E. Woodberry

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'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'

Rudyard Kipling

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“A lie is an excuse guarded”

Jonathan Swift

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'The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.'

Oliver Goldsmith

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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.”

Bill Davidsen

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"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy."

Ralph Ransom

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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

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Well, as far as I know there isn't any rule against it. I think some people just find it hard to find a quote because of its commonality but really, it isn't hard at all. Actually I believe it's the opposite. Because the word may be so common you're able to find tons of quotes worthy of posting. I used to find it difficult too but found a way to do it and if I can find a way around it anyone can! :winky:


(Thanks for the heads-up, luv. :))


"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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“What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.”

C.S. Lewis

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.


Graham Greene