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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Ten Commandments
Pat Riley

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My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
Ancestry
Will Rogers

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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Hope
Jim Rohn

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Life and Living
Eleanor Roosevelt

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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Opera
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
The future
Jean Rostand

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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
Sacrifice
Helen Rowland

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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Intolerance
Salman Rushdie

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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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
War
Dorothy L. Sayers

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Death and Dying
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Impossibility
Robert H. Schuller

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Were it not for hope the heart would break.
Hope
Scottish Proverb

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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Empire
Sir John Robert Seeley

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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
Friends and Friendship
John Selden

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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Memory
Seneca

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What once were vices are manners now.
Manners
Seneca

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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Vice
Seneca

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Things were bad but now they are OK.
Adversity
Harold J. Seymour

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I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
Uncategorised
William Shakespeare

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If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
Plays
William Shakespeare

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
Action
William Shakespeare

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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
Silence
William Shakespeare

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We were not born to sue, but to command.
Negotiation
William Shakespeare

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Economy and Economics
George Bernard Shaw

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