“ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
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“ Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. ”
- James Stephens- Copy
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“ Our entire life… consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
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“ Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. ”
- Saint Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. ”
- Hubert Humphrey- Copy
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“ Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
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“ It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit… ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No… ”
- David Hume- Copy
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“ All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. ”
- Carl Edward Sagan- Copy
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“ Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ”
- Charles Anderson Dana- Copy
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“ Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ”
- Louis E. Boone- Copy
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“ The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. ”
- S.J. Perelman- Copy
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“ God is the Celebrity-Author of the World's Best-Seller. We have made God into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ”
- Lynn Lavner- Copy
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“ Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother. ”
- Arthur Naiman- Copy
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