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- [A formula for answering controversial letters - without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be...
- A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, I take thee...
- A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ...
- A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. ...
- [A man]
can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not...
- A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being...
- A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being...
- A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. ...
- A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame...
- A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a...
- A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ...
- A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you...
- A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind...
- After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and...
- All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have...
- All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. ...
- All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first...
- Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. ...
- Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans...
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able...
- An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer....
- An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for,...
- Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must...
- As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked...
- As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have...
- As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul...
- Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't...
- Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers,...
- Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ...
- Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ...
- Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. ...
- Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. ...
- Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure...
- Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to...
- Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It...
- Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ...
- Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's...
- Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick...
- Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate...
- Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form. ...
- Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ...
- Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed...
- Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and...
- Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and...
- Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. ...
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ...
- Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ...
- Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ...
- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? ...
- Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ...
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply...
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we...
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we...
- Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin. ...
- Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ...
- Even the best brewer makes bad beer. ...
- Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a...
- Even though it's hard, it's easy. ...
- Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ...
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ...
- Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. ...
- Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his...
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man...
- Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a...
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to...
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most...
- Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ...
- For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. ...
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in...
- Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. ...
- Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so...
- Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. ...
- Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for...
- Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and...
- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates...
- He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to...
- He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles. ...
- Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her...
- Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me. ...
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law ...
- How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such...
- However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some...
- Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled...
- Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. ...
- I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of...
- I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against...
- I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is...
- I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have...
- I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. ...
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given...
- I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality...
- I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing...
- I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs...
- I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of...
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by...
- I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. ...
- I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. ...
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically...
- I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if...
- I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse...
- Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner...
- Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner...
- If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it...
- If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner;...
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven...
- If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. ...
- If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose...
- If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into...
- If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even...
- If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. ...
- If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the...
- If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give...
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you...
- If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You...
- If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. ...
- In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize...
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ...
- In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail. ...
- In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions...
- In wealth many friends; in poverty, not even relatives. ...
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ...
- Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its...
- Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible...
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction...
- Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind....
- It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. ...
- It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock...
- It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to...
- It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. ...
- It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished...
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, I'm earning enough to support my family....
- It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond...
- It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or...
- It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest...
- It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but...
- It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of...
- It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the...
- It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. ...
- I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. ...
- Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all...
- Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ...
- Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. ...
- Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they...
- Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. ...
- Leave well - even pretty well - alone: that is what I learn as I get old. ...
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put...
- Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ...
- Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to...
- Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry. ...
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ...
- Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ...
- Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the...
- Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine...
- Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into...
- Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered...
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping...
- Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ......
- Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is...
- Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending...
- May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us...
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by...
- Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily...
- Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily...
- Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in...
- Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of...
- My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain...
- Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law....
- Never injure a friend, even in jest. ...
- No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or...
- No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even...
- No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even...
- No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even...
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. ...
- Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold. ...
- Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ...
- Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold. ...
- Nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the...
- None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers
If you love your...
- Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. ...
- Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles. ...
- Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. ...
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps,...
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ...
- Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful...
- Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of...
- Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's...
- Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking...
- Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that...
- Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - it is to...
- People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a...
- Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the...
- Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. ...
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ...
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ...
- Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. ...
- Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. ...
- Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its...
- Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ...
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of...
- Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself....
- Shoot for the moon... 'cause even if you miss, you'll end up in the stars. ...
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ...
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ...
- Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one! ...
- Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision...
- Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over...
- Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends; they go because they can't think of anything...
- The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always...
- The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs....
- The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising,...
- The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - because everyone would...
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt...
- The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a...
- The definition of success - To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children;...
- The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days. ...
- The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the...
- The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred...
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ...
- The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome,...
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies,...
- The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to...
- The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as...
- The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of...
- The preamble to the Constitution states: We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more...
- The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ...
- The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even...
- The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants...
- The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students...
- The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact...
- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. ...
- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the...
- The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence...
- The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even...
- The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. ...
- The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on...
- There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more...
- There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the...
- There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course...
- There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ...
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why...
- There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ...
- There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even,...
- There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even...
- There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable...
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,...
- There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health. ...
- There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get...
- This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator...
- Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. ...
- To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ...
- To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family....
- To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to...
- To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well...
- To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ...
- To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain....
- To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to...
- To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up...
- To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ...
- Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps...
- Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but...
- Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is...
- Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even...
- True love isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give...
- Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. ...
- Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good. ...
- Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ...
- University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics...
- Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all...
- War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying...
- We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian...
- We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. ...
- We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to...
- We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us!...
- When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth,...
- When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that Israel might yet accept Christ...
- When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. ...
- When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell....
- When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind...
- When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it...
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
- Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation...
- Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation...
- With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough. ...
- Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one...
- You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty -...
- You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ...
- You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be...
- You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something...
- You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is...
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