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278 quotesHumorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Comedy and Comedians
Erma Bombeck
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
Integrity
Gamaliel Bradford
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Teachers and Teaching
Bertolt Brecht
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Pride
Emily Bronte
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Cities and City Life
Rupert Brooke
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People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.
Misfortunes
Brouhours
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Purpose
John Mason Brown
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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Vice
Thomas Edward Brown
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Belief
Julius Caesar
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Principles
Albert Camus
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Work
Dale Carnegie
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
Ideology
John Le Carre
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Secrets
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Champman
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Enemies
William Ellery Channing
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Acting and Actors
Chevy Chase
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Angels
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Habit
Agatha Christie
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Sympathy
Randolph Churchill
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
History and Historians
Marcus T. Cicero
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun