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"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." »Marquis de Sade
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"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." »J. C. Watts
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"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." »William Jennings Bryan
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"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things." »Ecclesiates 1922 Bible
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"No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think." »Penelope Fitzgerald
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"If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away." »George Lorimer
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." »G. K. Chesterton
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." »G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things." »Vincent van Gogh
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"The thing we want eludes our grasp, Some other thing is given; sometimes Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought Are ours; these all are God?s own work." »Hindu Poetess
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"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." »Dorothy Nevill
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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre." »Frank H. Crane
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"Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude." »Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more." »Dorothy Parker
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"I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing." »Thomas Aquinas
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"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." »Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment." »Theodore Harold White
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"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man." »Gustave Flaubert
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"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." »Woodrow Wilson
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment." »T. H. White
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"Make man believe he is doing the right thing, with enough convincing powers, by any means so appropriate, then man, this being that was made superior by God, may do the most sinister thing,both imaginable and in real time" »Lot Chakonza
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." »D. H. Lawrence
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." »Will Durant
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"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier." »H. L. Mencken
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"What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love" »Victor Hugo
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