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648 quotesThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
Growth
William James
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Life and Living
Thomas Jefferson
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Generals
Thomas Jefferson
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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Pride
Thomas Jefferson
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Tranquility is the old man's milk.
Tranquility
Thomas Jefferson
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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Belief
David Jenkins
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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
Gold
Johnson
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Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Competition
Patti Johnson
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Focus
Samuel Johnson
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No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Censorship
Samuel Johnson
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Value
Samuel Johnson
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
The future
Samuel Johnson
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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Housework
Beverly Jones
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Housework
Erica Jong
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Youth
Joseph Joubert
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Age and Aging
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Integrity
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Travel and Tourism
John Keats
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
Knowledge
John F. Kennedy
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Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Uncategorised
John F. Kennedy
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
People
John F. Kennedy
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun