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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault to speak as he w Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault to speak as he writes, for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap an Dolly Parton Quotes

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker. Francis Bacon Quotes

The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.

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I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself. Victor Hugo Quotes

I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.

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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one sing Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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I don't mind making jokes but I don't want to look like one. Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I don't mind making jokes but I don't want to look like one.

He who regards another's wife as his mother the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud Chanakya Quotes

He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud, and the pleasure and pain of all other living beings as his own - truly sees things in the right perspective and he is a true pandit.

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When I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word Richard Dawkins Quotes

When I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

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With foxes we must play the fox. Thomas Fuller Quotes

With foxes we must play the fox.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are as it were Eric Hoffer Quotes

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are as it were laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

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