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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

Debord, Guy on quotations    Share

"Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything."

Malraux, Andre on quotations    Share

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

Wimsey, Lord Peter on quotations
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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

Disraeli, Isaac on quotations
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"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

Malcolm X on freedom
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"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love."

Bhagavad Gita on hatred
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"Beyond the reach of common man; is that one elusive thing...Trust!"

Tanner, Denise on
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"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"Life itself is a quotation."

Borges, Jorge Luis on quotations
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"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

Rochman, Hazel on books - reading
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"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on learning
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

Hoffer, Eric on action    Share

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Kafka, Franz on youth
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on ancestry
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"Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

Nathan, George Jean on patriotism    Share

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