“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. ”
- Anne Bradstreet- Copy
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“ Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. ”
- Arthur Ashe- Copy
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“ What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ”
- Bette Midler- Copy
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“ God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The presence of any Israeli soldier inside the Lebanese borders would mean the violation of the borders drawn by the U.N., and I'll file a complaint to the Security Council then. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ As you know, natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA. ”
- Rick Perry- Copy
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“ I realize that the margins are being squeezed,... We have a plan for that. ”
- David Harris- Copy
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“ Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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“ The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. ”
- Paul Goldberger- Copy
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“ Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
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“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ We've neutralized a suspected terrorist cell within our borders. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
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“ The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. ”
- Barbara Walters- Copy
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“ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ They came./ He pushed them. And they flew. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
- 236
“ Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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