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1. "A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

Elbert Green Hubbard

categories: Memory -:- Talent and Genius

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2. "A retired husband is a wife's full time job."

Ella Harris

categories: Marriage -:- Work and Laziness

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3. "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

Napoleon Bonaparte

categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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4. "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

Fidel Castro

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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5. "A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Mao Zedong

categories: Authority, Government -:- Various

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6. "A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."

Amiri Baraka

categories: Richness and Money

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7. "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."

Ramsey Clark

categories: Human -:- Law and Crime

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8. "A riot is the language of the unheard."

Martin Luther King

categories: Authority, Government

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9. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Nature and Animals

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10. "A seafood diet is the best: whenever you see food, eat it."

Anon.

categories: Health and Alcohol

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11. "A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation."

Thornton Wilder, "The Eighth Day"

categories: Wit and Humor

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12. "A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head."

Anon.

categories: Various

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13. "A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

Joseph Stalin

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

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14. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Leo Buscaglia

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Nature and Animals

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15. "A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Minna von Barnhelm"

categories: God and Religion

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16. "A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it."

Anon.

categories: Marriage -:- Trust

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17. "A smile is a curve that sets things straight."

Anon.

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Various

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18. "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart."

Anon.

categories: Joy and Sadness

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19. "A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."

Rhonda Marlow

categories: Joy and Sadness

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20. "A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Health and Alcohol

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Old Silver -:- Breweriana -:- Golf Equipment -:- LCD TV

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21. "A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to."

Russell Baker

categories: Happiness -:- Question and Problem

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22. "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

Gaston Bachelard

categories: Beauty and Ugliness

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23. "A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Welsh proverb

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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24. "A stand can be made against invasion of an army; no stand can be made against invasion of an idea."

Anon.

categories: Various

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25. "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."

Georges Pompidou

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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26. "A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them."

Austin O`Malley

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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27. "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. "

Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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28. "A sweetheart is like a big rectifier - she turns AC of loneliness to DC of love."

Kazimierz Matan

categories: Love

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29. "A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell."

Anon.

categories: Various

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30. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

Jonathan Swift

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Normality and Madness

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31. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Brooks Adams

categories: Education

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32. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Horace Mann

categories: Education

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33. "A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from."

Anon.

categories: Peace and War -:- Various -:- Good and Evil

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34. "A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Joy and Sadness

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35. "A thousand probabilities does not make one fact."

Italian proverb

categories: Reality and Imagination

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36. "A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense."

Anon.

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

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37. "A true friend walks in when the world walks out."

Walter Winchell

categories: Friendship and Hostility

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38. "A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."

Pierre Corneille, "Nicomede"

categories: Authority, Government -:- Marriage

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39. "A truth spoken before its time is dangerous."

Greek proverb

categories: Truth and Falsity

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40. "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

John Ciardi

categories: Education

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41. "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."

Samuel Goldwyn

categories: Law and Crime -:- Richness and Money

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42. "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

categories: Love -:- Optimism and Hope

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43. "A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend."

Eric Hoffer

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Peace and War

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44. "A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."

Karl Kraus

categories: Power and Weakness

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45. "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner."

Turkish proverb

categories: Peace and War -:- Various

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46. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men."

Saadi

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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47. "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Baltasar Gracian

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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48. "A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."

Thomas Fuller

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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49. "A wise man sees as much as he should, not as much as he can."

Anon.

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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50. "A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something."

Anon.

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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