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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Speech
Peggy Noonan

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Age and Aging
John Nuveen

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No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm
John Lord O'Brian

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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Ancestry
Joyce Carol Oates

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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Effort
William Of Occam

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Competition
Al Oerter

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Happiness
Margaret Oliphant

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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Competition
Robert Orpen

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A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
Liberals
George Orwell

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
School
George Orwell

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Love
Samuel Osgood

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Bear patiently with a rival.
Enemies
Ovid

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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Anxiety
Ovid

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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Rest
Ovid

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Without consistency there is no moral strength.
Consistency
Owen

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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Wisdom
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
Music
Vance Packard

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
God
William Paley

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Mistakes
Vilfredo Pareto

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Books - Reading
Dorothy Parker

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Critics and Criticism
Dorothy Parker

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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wit
Dorothy Parker

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I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
Burial
Norman Parkinson

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
Fear
Wendell Parsons

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Nature
Dolly Parton

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