Quotes by Unknown, Source

"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."

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"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."

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"Many a woman drives a man to drink water."

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"The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta."

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"Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!"

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"I drink to make other people interesting."

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"Where ambition ends happiness begins."

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"On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time."

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"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart."

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"America is a willingness of the heart."

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"America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do?"

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"American is a very difficult language mixed with English."

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"Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides."

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"The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have."

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"God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation."

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"True glory lies in noble deeds."

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"The fire of glory is the torch of the mind."

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"Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan."

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"Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!"

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"What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long."

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"Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own."

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"Goals that are not written down are just wishes."

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"Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms."

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"Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism."

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"Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related"

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"If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there"

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"Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger."

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"The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives."

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"If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved."

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"Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction."

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"Life is a game but golf is serious."

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"In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference."

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"Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God."

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"Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself."

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"Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."

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"Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind."

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"An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation."

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"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

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"Gratitude is the doorman's payment."

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"It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness."

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