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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Character
Ronald Reagan

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
Obscurity
Adrienne Rich

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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Control
Pat Riley

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Politicians and Politics
Will Rogers

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.
Wealth
Jim Rohn

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Assertiveness
Eleanor Roosevelt

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Skill
John Ruskin

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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Desire
John Ruskin

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Vulgarity
John Ruskin

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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Animals
Bertrand Russell

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Bertrand Russell

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Friends and Friendship
Russian Proverb

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana

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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Skepticism
George Santayana

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It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Speakers and Speaking
Saying

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If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Suspicion
Black American Saying

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Stubbornness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Will and Will Power
Arthur Schopenhauer

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Prayer
Seneca

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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
Greed
William Shakespeare

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
Truth
William Shakespeare

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Jokes and Jokers
George Bernard Shaw

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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Music
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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