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1238 quotesWhy slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Force
Katharine Hepburn
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
George Herbert
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Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
Motivation
Jack Herbert
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Change
Herodotus
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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Speakers and Speaking
Cullen Hightower
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There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Integrity
Napoleon Hill
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Desire
Napoleon Hill
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Individuality
Rabbi Hillel
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Doctors
Hippocrates
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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
Marriage
Hitopadesa
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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Negotiation
Eric Hoffer
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Death and Dying
Eric Hoffer
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Depression
Eric Hoffer
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Lies and Lying
Eric Hoffer
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Bores and Boredom
Eric Hoffer
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Imitation
Eric Hoffer
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Modern and Modernism
Eric Hoffer
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Conversation
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Work
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun