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True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.


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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.



There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.



People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!



No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.



Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.



There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.



The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.



There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.



I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.






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This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.



The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.



I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.

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I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

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We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

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I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.




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