"Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn."

Vidal, Gore on style
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"It is difficult not to write satire."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on sarcasm   

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."

Lakein, Alan on achievement
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"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."

Taylor, A. J. P. on greatness   

"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."

Socrates on contentment
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"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]"

Twain, Mark on funerals
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"All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

Dryden, John on death   

"Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death   

"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joubert, Joseph on truth
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

Jerrold, Douglas William on art
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"Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?"

Seneca on expectation   

"He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment."

Ball, Ivern on exaggeration
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"He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt."

Johnson, Samuel on suspicion   

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped."

Bryson, Lyman L. on change
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"I have just about all I can take of myself."

Behrman, S. on self-respect
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on master
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"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C."

Bierce, Ambrose on gossip   

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on friends and friendship
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"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

Fadiman, Clifton on food and eating
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"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

Fuller, Thomas on zeal
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you."

Winger, Debra on judgment and judges   

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine."

Thoreau, Henry David on government   

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"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

Virgil on beauty
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"Truth is the glue that holds government together."

Ford, Gerald R. on government   

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."

Shakespeare, William on children   

"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."

Sontag, Susan on bores and boredom
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"Growing old is not growing up."

Horton, Doug on age and aging
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"To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student."

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar on teacher
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"Not vain the weakest, if their force unite."

Homer on unity   

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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking
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"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel."

Quinton, John on politics   

"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."

Suso, Heinrich on suffering
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"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."

Harris, Sidney J. on teacher
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."

Bloch, Arthur on compromise
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"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on nations
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