“ Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 406
“ Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 446
“ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Sanity: that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ”
- Mae West- Copy
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“ I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. ”
- Silvio Berlusconi- Copy
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“ Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. ”
- Lemony Snicket- Copy
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“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women do bad things. ”
- Tucker Carlson- Copy
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“ The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. ”
- Alfred Jules Ayer- Copy
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“ It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
- 486
“ The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ”
- Stuart Chase- Copy
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“ You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ”
- Joyce Maynard- Copy
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“ While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. ”
- Tom Brokaw- Copy
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“ Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ”
- Benjamin Haydon- Copy
- 149
“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
- 542
“ I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
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