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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Ernest Hemingway quotesMy aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt quotesWhenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Thomas Carlyle quotesA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading. Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun. Thomas Carlyle

A man’s honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything. Thomas Carlyle
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotesAll intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Goethe

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent. Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Goethe

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. Goethe

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a trifle. Goethe
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Benjamin Franklin quotesThere are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin
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P J O’Rourke Quotes

P J O'Rourke quotesThe Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders. P J O’Rourke

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. P J O’Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P J O’Rourke

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians. P J O’Rourke
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi quotesAn eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mahatma Gandhi
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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Aldous Huxley quotesReality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. Aldous Huxley

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Aldous Huxley
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Joseph Addison Quotes

Joseph Addison quotesNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. Joseph Addison

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambrose Bierce quotesEgotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce

Noise: a stench in the ear. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. Ambrose Bierce

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Ambrose Bierce

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