favourite quotes

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There was a lady walking down the pavement and as we passed she stopped and she said: 'I know you, don't I?' ... I said: 'My name's Muldoon.'. She said: 'You're not related to that bastard in Parliament, are you?'. And on that salutary note Mr Speaker, I say goodbye

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To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable

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There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see

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Blessed are the cheesemakers, for they will be called children of God.

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Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

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We all wish we had superpowers. We all wish we could do more than we can do

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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing

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You know what they say about consultants. Give them your watch and they'll tell you the time.

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I know a profound pattern humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it. How boring they find it.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail

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Old ways won't open new doors

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Someone who steals an egg, will steal a cow

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Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eye are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults

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a man who is hit through the neck and survives is the luckiest creature alive, but personally I think it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

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Life is real! Life is earnest!
     And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
     Was not spoken of the soul.

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People who don't want you to think are never your friend

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It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life

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If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.

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A hog in armour is still but a hog

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

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crying at least on the international level isnt about how much distress a population feels, rather its about how much that population feels they have the freedom of emotional expression

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What the farmer doesnt know, he doesnt eat