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Small: Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating inc
Ambrose Bierce
"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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Small: Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs
Ambrose Bierce
"Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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Small: Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness
Ambrose Bierce
"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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Small: Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk
Ambrose Bierce
"Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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Small: Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money
Ambrose Bierce
"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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Small: Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gi
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Have the courage to act instead of react
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Have the courage to act instead of react"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Every calling is great when greatly pursued
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
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Small: I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carr
Robert Frost
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand I teach in order to learn
Robert Frost
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: You have freedom when youre easy in your harness
Robert Frost
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: To be a poet is a condition, not a profession
Robert Frost
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work
Robert Frost
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: Hell is a half-filled auditorium
Robert Frost
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and cant, and the other half who have nothing t
Robert Frost
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone
Robert Frost
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes
Robert Frost
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel
Robert Frost
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: Dont ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up
Robert Frost
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"
Robert Frost, Poet
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Small: Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy
Dan Rather
"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy"
Dan Rather, Journalist
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Small: Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called sa
Dan Rather
"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather"
Dan Rather, Journalist
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Small: Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way
Ralph Nader
"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax
"We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax"
Whitey Herzog, Athlete
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Small: Lets not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people
Ralph Nader
"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady li
Ralph Nader
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers
Ralph Nader
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get i
Ralph Nader
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: This (George W. Bushs) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
Ralph Nader
"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling
Ralph Nader
"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship
Ralph Nader
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
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Small: We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent
Ronald Reagan
"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"
Ronald Reagan, President
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