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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Discovery
Francis Bacon

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I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Stupidity
Antonio Banderas

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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
Past
Gerald Barzan

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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Illusion
E. R. Beadle

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
Death and Dying
Ben Becht

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
Cynics and Cynicism
Ambrose Bierce

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Vanity
Ambrose Bierce

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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Common Sense
Josh Billings

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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Lies and Lying
Elizabeth Bowen

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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Nudity
Francis H. Bradley

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Impossibility
Louis D. Brandeis

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Pearl S. Buck

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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
Fame
Truman Capote

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The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.
Women
Cher

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Habit
Agatha Christie

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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Critics and Criticism
Harold Clurman

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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Appearance
Herb Cohen

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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Song and Singing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Visualization
Robert Collier

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It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
Materialism
Robert A. Cook

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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Neighbors
Norman Douglas

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I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Wives
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
Thomas A. Edison

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