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Opinion Journalist Inspirational Quotes (9569)

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
Oscar Wilde
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
George Orwell
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
Oscar Wilde
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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
Mark Twain
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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
Mark Twain
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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
Leo Tolstoy
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Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate
Noam Chomsky
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The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
Susan Sontag
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
Mark Twain
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There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
Leo Tolstoy
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Mark Twain
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Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.
James Fenton
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It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
George Orwell
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All men can understand what representation is and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
Thomas Paine
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
Christopher Morley
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
Bill Harry
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Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
Noam Chomsky
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