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"On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away." »Tom Lehrer
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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »William Stekel
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger
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"I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person." »Tony Kanal
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"It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'" »Dorothy Parker
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"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check." »M. C. Escher
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"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." »Ayn Rand
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"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." »Frank Gelett Burgess
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off" »Andrew Schneider
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"Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely." »Kay Lyons
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"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?" »Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class." »Unknown
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"The man who every sacred science knows, Yet has not strength to keep in check the foes That rise within him, mars his Fortune?s fame, And brings her by his feebleness to shame." »Bharavi
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"The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. check me out. Don't be the sucker generation." »Jean Nathan Miller
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"Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future." »Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others." »Greville
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle
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"After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore
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"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire
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