Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
Samuel Johnson
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EARL PARRENO You can tell they are in a heated exchange.
LAURA MCELROY I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON They are almost backing themselves into a corner and may not have much of a choice.
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KAREN SZULCZEWSKI Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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VIKTOR E. FRANKL Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, a...
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MITCH ALBOM A poor manager may have been replaced or a skilful manager may have simply had a poor short-term run...
JUSTIN MODRAY Everything in life is a blessing, however, sometimes we have to work through a lesson or challenge t...
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CHUCK NORRIS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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ANUJ SOMANY The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider the...
ROBERT J. SHILLER It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poe...
C. S. LEWIS People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.
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VIJAY Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
JEAN ANOUILH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Is...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small Amer...
GORE VIDAL I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
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GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
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مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
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JEFF FLUHR Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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FRANK PAGANO In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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