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"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing." »Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
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"I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it." »Mary Montagu
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"Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses." »George Will
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"Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses." »George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft
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"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." »Irving Wallace
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"It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"there is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends." »Homer
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"there are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'" »Andre Gide
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"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!" »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
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"What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god" »William Shakespeare
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"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it." »Charles Babbage
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"Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." »Oscar Wilde
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"there is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen." »Sean O'Faolain
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"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love." »Delmore Schwartz
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." »Oscar Wilde
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"the skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." »Jean Baudrillard
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. the quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." »Winston Churchill
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