Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest."

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"It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked."

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"So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell."

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"Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd."

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"Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about."

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"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."

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"What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs."

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"The marks you receive in the school of experience are mostly bruises."

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"The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent."

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"How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read."

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"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane."

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"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."

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"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."

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"People who live in glass houses should take out insurance."

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"Religion is insurance in this world against fire in the next."

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"A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is"

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me."

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"It is far better to be trusted and respected that it is to be liked."

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"The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none."

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"The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability."

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"You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are"

Unknown, Source on intelligence and intellectuals   

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

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"It is little that one gains by cleverness."

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"When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains."

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"An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition."

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"Intuition is what tells a wife her husband has done wrong before he thinks of doing it."

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"Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses."

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"Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision."

Unknown, Source on jealousy
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"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole."

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"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

Unknown, Source on job   

"My job is never work -- the only time it seems like work is when I'd rather be doing something else."

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"The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke."

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"The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty."

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"May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam."

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"Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?"

Unknown, Source on judgment and judges   

"Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!"

Unknown, Source on judgment and judges   

"Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent."

Unknown, Source on judgment and judges   

"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."

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"If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them."

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