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The world will change for the bette…

25 Jan , 2017  

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Sidney Madwed ,

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Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy for a poet is to …

6 Sep , 2016  

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Great short quote and quotation by: Jean Cocteau , French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 – 1963)

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There are people who, instead of li…

3 May , 2016  

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Guinon , (1863 – 1923)

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There are times when you have to ch…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertolt Brecht , German Communist & dramatist (1898 – 1956)

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There is a noble manner of being po…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

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There is a very fine line between l…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Great short quote and quotation by: Maya Angelou , US author & poet (1928 – )

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There is a wide difference between …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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There is no being of any race who, …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. Great short quote and quotation by: Cicero , Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

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Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique

There is not less wit nor less inve…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Great short quote and quotation by: Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique , French critic & philosopher (1647 – 1706)

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There is only one thing in the worl…

26 Dec , 2014  

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

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Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915

There is such a thing as a man bein…

17 Nov , 2014  

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Great short quote and quotation by: Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915 , 28th president […]

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They say, best men are moulded out …

25 Jan , 2014  

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, Act 5 scene 1 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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