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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Argument
Charles Caleb Colton

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
God
Cotvos

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Friends and Friendship
Frank Crane

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
Truth
Walter Cronkite

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Humankind
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Idleness
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition
C. Archie Danielson

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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
Plays
Bette Davis

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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Society
Frank DeFord

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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
Conflict
Richard M. DeVos

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Truth
Emily Dickinson

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Truth
Emily Dickinson

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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Truth
Benjamin Disraeli

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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Advertising
Norman Douglas

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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Efficiency
David Dunham

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Truth
Lawrence Durrell

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Science and Scientists
Paul Ehrlich

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Wives
George Eliot

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
Tradition
T. S. Eliot

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
Methods
T. S. Eliot

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Creeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun