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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Fate
John Dryden

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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Power
John Dryden

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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Dryden

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
Modern and Modernism
Terry Eagleton

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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Control
Clint Eastwood

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
God
Meister Eckhart

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Possibilities
Thomas A. Edison

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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Results
Thomas A. Edison

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A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Colleges and Universities
Thomas Ehrlich

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Money
Albert Einstein

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Stupidity
Albert Einstein

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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Bargains
Albert Einstein

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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Simplicity
Albert Einstein

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Human Nature
Albert Einstein

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
Truth
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Change
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
Success
T. S. Eliot

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Teachers and Teaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Appearance
English Proverb

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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Difficulties
Epictetus

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
Opinions
Epictetus

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