A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Author: Barbara Walters

Author: Barbara Walters

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Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the

Author: Hazel Butler
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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Author: Joseph Smith
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Author: Gertrude Stein
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She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah

Author: Kelly Batten
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an

Author: Lionel Shriver
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Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leader

Author: William A. Adams
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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how

Author: Lynn Davies
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The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying some

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Mountains clothed in snowRobed in white against blue skiesMirrored in the lake.

Author: Timothy Salter
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Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost

Author: Nancy Janes
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We can only love one another deeply from the heart, for there is home of sacredness.

Author: Unknown
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Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liqui

Author: Abhishek Rath
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Author: Zig Ziglar
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Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path bec

Author: Tracy Allen
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There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through uni

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illnes

Author: Alice Miller
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Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.

Author: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing.

Author: Kenneth Eade
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Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.

Author: Ogwo David Emenike
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My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach

Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in t

Author: Omar Khayyám
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The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is no

Author: Roger Crpwley
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The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Author: Nalo Hopkinson
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What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now?

Author: Georgia Clark
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When men start affording more rights to women, maybe we'll be nicer to the ones we don't like. But f

Author: Leanna Renee Hieber
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I think family is so important.

Author: Jacqueline Emerson
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Killing people isn't progress.

Author: Athan Fletcher
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Attitude is the source of beauty, self-confidence, success and happiness.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.

Author: Mitch Rowland
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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best

Author: Marva Collins
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Author: John Corigliano
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At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was befor

Author: William Styron
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We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Author: Nenia Campbell
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If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Author: Henry Hazlitt
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How quickly a moment sinks into the past.

Author: Anne Perry
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a jo

Author: Mary Karr
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Bit by bit, whatever you see to be petty becomes plenty.

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impos

Author: John C. Lennox
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[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
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The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio.

Author: Edw. C
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She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left h

Author: Peter Carey
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[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of the

Author: Wally Lamb
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The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Live your greatest dream.

Author: Unknown
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I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

Author: Benyf
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Lord. How many antidepressants can one person take? However much it is, I'm going to need the maximu

Author: Baylee Crush
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Many people in the world have a talent from God, but they do not know him

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God

Author: Craig Groeschel
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One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you

Author: Hope Solo
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The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Author: Ken Olsen
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Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally i

Author: Elyn R. Saks
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Author: Unknown
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If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars

Author: Ron Moody
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Author: Laurence J. Peter
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the sec

Author: Bill Watterson
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A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found

Author: John Mortimer
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We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.

Author: Rolando Mithcell
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If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be un

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minut

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull yo

Author: Auliq Ice
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Author: Lord Byron
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If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Discipline is needed in our pursuit.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't kno

Author: Giordano Bruno
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He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until

Author: Katherine McIntyre
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The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, l

Author: Laurel House
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She's just a girl who dreams too deeply for this world.

Author: Melody Lee
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When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

Author: Patricia Briggs
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Praying is pleasing to God.

Author: Unknown
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There are no coincidences", Silette wrote. "Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that have

Author: Sara Gran
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Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel

Author: Anne Lamott
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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Gossip is not adopted by the bored. It is an art of discourse adopted by those who have experienced

Author: Kanza Javed
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I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the as

Author: Voltaire
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Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li

Author: Washington Irving
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always b

Author: Gary Ross
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The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. S

Author: Cari Luna
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Laughter is America's most important export.

Author: Walt Disney Company
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We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as childr

Author: Lisa Firestone
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Today when you meet someone, try not to complain, judge or criticise. The least you can do is to giv

Author: Kabelo Mabona
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You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-in

Author: J.B.Alves
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I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt li

Author: Veronica Roth
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You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.

Author: Hector Barbossa
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Author: U.G. Krishnamurti
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It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfort

Author: Deyth Banger
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Every work of art tells a story.

Author: A.D. Posey
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from t

Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in

Author: Malcolm X
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This is reality, back home is routine.

Author: George Ikilikjan
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Some boundaries are sacred.

Author: Nick Wood
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Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recogni

Author: Amit Ray
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His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness

Author: Peter Redgrove
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The truth is, Colonel, that there's no divine spark, bless you. There's many a man alive no more val

Author: Michael Shaara