The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right
And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
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Conversation<br/><br/>God and I in space alone...<br/>and nobody else in view...<br/>And where are all the people,<br/>Oh Lord I said,<br/> the earth below<br/> and the sky overhead<br/>and the dead that I once knew?<br/>That was a dream, God smiled<br/>and said: The dream that seemed to<br/>be true; there were no people<br/>living or dead; there was no earth,<br/> and no sky overhead,<br/>there was only myself in you.<br/>Why do I feel no fear? I asked,<br/>meeting you here in this way?<br/>For I have sinned, I know full well<br/>and is there heaven and is there hell,<br/>and is this Judgement Day?<br/>Nay, those were but dreams<br/> the Great God said, dreams that have ceased to<br/> be.<br/>There are no such things as fear and sin; <br/>there is no you... You never have been.<br/>There is nothing at all but me.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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People like to say, You're only as old as you feel, but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride.<br/>But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?<br/>Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.
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As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.
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Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.
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We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
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A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi.. Has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire.
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We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal
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