“ Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ”
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“ If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. ”
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“ I did lose my sight for a bit because I was crowded in. Everybody rushed on to the track. Then a couple of minutes later the announcement came. ”
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“ Therefore I do require it, which I makes confession, to be brought reg'lar and draw'd mild. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ His announcement was so typically Chuck — he did it with grace and dignity and intelligence,... Wolf Blitzer Reports. ”
- Tom Selleck- Copy
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“ Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration. ”
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“ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth. ”
- Sir John A. MacDonald- Copy
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“ A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. ”
- Patrick Kavanagh- Copy
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“ Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.". ”
- Raymond Smullyan- Copy
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“ I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. ”
- Miles Kindera- Copy
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“ I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. ”
- Richard Darman- Copy
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“ A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
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“ He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
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“ When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. ”
- Paul De Gondi- Copy
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“ They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. — ”
- President John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. ”
- Mark Van Doren- Copy
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