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George Bernard Shaw
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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Baltasar Gracian
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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George Woodberry
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
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Marilyn vos Savant
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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Charlie McCarthy
When I get smitten, I stay smut.
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Haniel Long
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
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Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), To his orchestra
Assassins!
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Stephen Mansfield
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
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Sri Madhava
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
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Joseph Addison
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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