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'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'

Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963

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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."


Robert Byrne

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"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"

William Shakespeare

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."


Abraham Lincoln

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it."

George Bernard Shaw

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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976

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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals."


Homer

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"Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."

Douglas Adams

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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."


Cato the Elder

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"Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity."

George Bernard Shaw

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“[Along with a gallery of photos displayed throughout, the book comes with a DVD that has save-for-your-grandchildren moments, like a mini-documentary on Shepard's first flight, as well as some whimsical moments with elaborate practical jokes.] Levity is lubricant of crises, ... gotcha.”


Wally Schirra

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As "gotcha" is slang and I can't find another quote using that word, I'm using the word "you"...

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)

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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Socrates

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Pythagoras

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There are very few Eskimos, but millions of Whites, just like mosquitoes. It is something very special and wonderful to be an Eskimo---they are like the snow geese. If an Eskimo forgets his language and Eskimo ways, he will be nothing but just another mosquito.

Abraham Okpik

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"I learned to speak Swahili and to shake the scorpions out of my mosquito boots in the mornings. I learned what it was like to get malaria and to run a temperature of 105 degrees for three days."

Roald Dahl

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All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

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"Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it."

Winnie the Pooh

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

T. H. Huxley

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"At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again."

Robbie Keane

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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

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"Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered]"

Julius Caesar

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."

Demosthenes

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It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

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If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

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"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

Douglas Adams

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Why don't you come up sometime, and see me?

Mae West

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"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

Mae West (1892 - 1980)

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Don’t tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

-Oscar Wilde

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)

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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment---their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

Queen Victoria

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955),

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"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."


Georges Clemenceau

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

George Bernard Shaw

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"Womankind more joy discovers, Making fools, than keeping lovers"

Earl of Rochester

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Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and---as George Orwell said---old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.

John Major