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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
President
Henry Brooks Adams

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Posterity
George Ade

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Danger
Aesop

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Creativity
Alfonso X

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Love
Woody Allen

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Character
Henri Frederic Amiel

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Participation
Bill Anderson

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Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
Death and Dying
Arabian Proverb

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Friends and Friendship
Aristotle

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Piety
Daisy Ashford

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If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Asimov

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When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Dreams
Isaac Asimov

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Adversity
St. Augustine

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Affection
Jane Austen

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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Nature
Jane Austen

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress
Walter Bagehot

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Doubt
Philip James Bailey

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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Regret
Lucille Ball

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Mistakes
Tallulah Bankhead

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Adversity
H.K. Barclay

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I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.
Inflation
Gerald Barzan

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Libraries
Henry Ward Beecher

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Joy
Henry Ward Beecher

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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Death and Dying
Hilaire Belloc

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Power
Stephen Vincent Benet

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