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81 quotesMany people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Death and Dying
Benjamin Franklin
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Mind
Sigmund Freud
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Disease
Thomas Fuller
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Events
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
Newspapers
John Galsworthy
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Detail
Edward Gibbon
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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Habit
Dr. Rob Gilbert
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Goodness
David Grayson
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Adolescence
Anthony Hope Hawkins
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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Life and Living
Helen Hayes
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Principles
Georg Hegel
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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Power
Herrich
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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Events
Edward Hoagland
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
Uncategorised
Eric Hoffer
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Miracles
Elbert Hubbard
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Desire
William James
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Age and Aging
Samuel Johnson
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Kissinger
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Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
Practice
Brian Klemmer
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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
Stupidity
Karl Kraus
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun