"Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten."

Proverb, German on past
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"The greatest step is out the door."

Proverb, German on action
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

Foley, Will on trials
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

Shaw, George Bernard on truth
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"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

Balfour, Arthur James on value   

"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting."

Fox, Dr. Emmit on criticism   

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on forgiveness
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on judgment and judges
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"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on nature   

"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on night
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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

Roosevelt, Theodore on ideals and idealism
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Roosevelt, Theodore on immigration
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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."

Roosevelt, Theodore on patriotism
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"The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics   

"Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."

Orwell, George on progress
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

Orwell, George on language   

"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."

Orwell, George on language   

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

Orwell, George on love
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"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

Orwell, George on madness
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?"

O'Brien, Edna on love
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox."

Kierkegaard, Søren on understanding
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky."

Saying, Ojibwa on pity   

"Where gold speaks every tongue is silent."

Proverb, Italian on money   

"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness   

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

Macmillan, Harold on fools and foolishness   

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

Santayana, George on intolerance
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."

Carlyle, Thomas on music
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"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

Unknown, Source on work
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"For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience."

Russell, Bertrand on women   

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread."

Bogan, Louise on women   

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

Sexton, Anne on fathers
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