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“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business
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“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Manners
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“When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Leadership
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“Do the next thing.”

John Wanamaker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Integrity

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Inspirational
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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“Life baffles and seems almost to mock. It refuses long to remain consistently one thing or another and it seldom puts us into onemood without violating it soon after. But Art, seeming to have for human dignity a respect which Life consistently lacks, grants us at least our right to sorrow fully and freely when sorrow is called for or to laugh our laugh out when laughter is appropriate. The artist selects and classifies what nature mingles in a hideous confusion and in doing so he is, in one of his many ways, adapting the universe to our minds by presenting it in an order which our emotions can follow.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conflict
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“The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Change
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“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Security
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“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

Joseph Wood Krutch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Family
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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Control
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“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Common Sense
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“Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Some folks are wise and some otherwise.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“It ain’t so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To bring up a child in the way he should go — travel that way yourself.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

Josh Billings
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Brevity

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Problems
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“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poverty
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“The cynic says, One man can’t do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Potential
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Excellence
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“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Excellence
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

John W. Gardner
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life

“The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul
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“Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person’s power.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Responsibility
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“Calmness is the cradle of power.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
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“Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“A mind grows by what it feeds on.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mind
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“The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Joys divided are increased.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Joy
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“Ideals are the worlds masters.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.”

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Genius

“What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
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“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Leadership
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“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sports
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“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Atheism
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“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided tobestow herself upon a certain man.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
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“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Perfection
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“By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Nudity
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“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Innocence
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“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

John Updike
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age

“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn’t.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Socialism
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“I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Worry
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“Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Words are the small change of thought.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Talent
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“A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Adversity
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“If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Solitude
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“A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Anger
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“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Laziness
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“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“Fame is a constant effort”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fame
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“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.”

Jules Renard
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Existence

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse…. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice–is often the means of their regeneration.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Understanding
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“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Bureaucracy
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“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Originality
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“Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Originality
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“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Knowledge
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“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Individuality
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“What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Individuality
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“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.”

John Stuart Mill
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Feminism

“Cato, I grudge you your death, as you would have grudged me the preservation of your life.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Creativity
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“As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Worry
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“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Victory
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“Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Men freely believe that which they desire.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“Men willingly believe what they wish.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pride
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“I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Attitude
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“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Men
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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”

Julius Caesar
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Honor

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked…. In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Traveling
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“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Travel
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“Time is the only critic without ambition.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Texas is not a state — it’s a state of mind.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mind
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“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”

John Steinbeck
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom