The Most Awesome Quotes Of All Times 16

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"To do this guy, I just have to turn half my brain off. The problem is at the end of the day, I sometimes forget to switch it back on again!" --Matt LeBlank on playing Joey Tribiani on Friends


"Be willing to give your best--before expecting it of others." --Unknown


"The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave." --Edward Morgan Forster


"Books--medicine for the soul." --Unknown


"Truth disappears with the telling of it." --Laurence Durrell


"Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by." --Andre Maurois


"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure." --Edward Thorndike


"To destroy is always the first step in any creation." --e.e. cummings


"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man--the biography of the man himself cannot be written." --Mark Twain


"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." --John Emerich Edward Dalberg


"Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." --Orson Scott Card;Ender's Game


"To err from the right path is common to mankind." --Sophocles


"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric." --Maya Angelou


"That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know--that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to." --Thornton Niven Wilder


"Better beans and bacon is peace than cakes and ale in fear." --Aesop


"A wise man does not try to hurry history." --Adlai Stevenson


"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." --Ernest Hemingway


"The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and seek peace like intellectual pygmies." --Basil O'Connor


"Conform and be dull." --J. Frank Dobie


"A man trusts his ears less than his eyes." --Herodotus


"Money is the power of impotence." --Leon Samson


"If you want something, go out and do it." --Victoria Adams; Spice Girls


"The purification of politics is an iridescent dream." --John James Ingalls


"In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences." --Robert Green Ingersoll


"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." --Mark Twain


"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." --Pablo Picasso


"To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead." --Sindair Lewis


"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education." --Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Reading maketh a full man." --Francis Bacon


"I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old." --Robert Frost


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