“ There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
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“ How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”
- Barrett Wendell- Copy
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“ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me. ”
- Alex Trebek- Copy
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“ No more we meet in yonder bowers. Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, have found monotony in loving. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. ”
- J. C. Hare- Copy
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“ Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. ”
- Robert Johnson- Copy
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“ Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
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“ If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. ”
- Tim McMahon- Copy
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“ As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ”
- Stephen Graham- Copy
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“ The day is nigh, when all the other political trees in our national political forest will lie prone, beaten down by the gale of a people's needs, while the mammoth tree of Socialism will remain the sole mistress, affording under its ample branches and rich foliage the protection long needed by a long-suffering people. ”
- Daniel De Leon- Copy
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“ I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a prone position on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, $16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working that night would not have been forced to endure two trials. ”
- David Horowitz- Copy
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“ I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ”
- Charles Babbage- Copy
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“ Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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