I am quite a collector of a notable quote or two.
Since I don’t want to take up any more space on my Myspace page, I’ve decided to migrate my favorite quotes over here to my blog and continue adding along. I hope you enjoy.
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“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed–
They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?
The cuckoo clock.”
– From the film The Third Man.
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“Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.” - Benjamin Franklin (1738)
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso
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“What is potential without achievement?” -Personal Reflection
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“Life keeps moving forward, either keep pace or risk being dragged along by it.” -Personal Reflection
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“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.” - The unwritten rule that all wives know.
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“I’ll scratch your back IF you scratch mine.” - ??? (Only goes to show that it’s human nature to put oneself first.)
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” - Lewis Carrol
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“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people“ - J.D. Rockefeller
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“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.“ - J.D. Rockefeller
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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.“ - Andrew Carnegie
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“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” - George Washington
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“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.” - Golda Meir
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” - Plato
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“This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” - Plato
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“Don’t allow yourself to fail before you succeed.” - Personal Reflection
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“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” - Mark Twain
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“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant.’” - Charlie Chaplin
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“We think too much and feel too little.” - Charlie Chaplin
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“We must become the change we want to see.” - Mahatma Ghandi
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“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” - Socrates
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“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” - Mark Twain
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“You are only as good as your best effort.” - Personal Reflection
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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius
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“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.” - George Bernard Shaw
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“God must love the common man, he made so many of them” - Abraham Lincoln
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” - Groucho Marx
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“He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices” - Pamela Goldoni
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde
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“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” - Sir Winston Churchill
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“I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.” - Marie Antoinette
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“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore“ - Mark Twain
