“ A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Ignorance is like the itch — the less you have of it the better off you are. ”
- Harry Mendelson- Copy
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“ Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. - Kurt Vonnegut. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provided you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking… ”
- James E. Burke- Copy
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“ The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preacher-man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ”
- Pierre Charron- Copy
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“ Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ”
- Joaquin Setanti- Copy
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“ Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. ”
- Henry Tuckerman- Copy
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“ No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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“ While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. ”
- Ian Hornak- Copy
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“ True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ”
- George Plimpton- Copy
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“ A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas. ”
- Claude D. Pepper- Copy
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“ Benevolence is a natural instinct of the human mind; when A sees B in distress, his conscience always urges him to entreat C to help him. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. ”
- Arnold Palmer- Copy
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“ Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 650
“ Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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