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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

Big, Off, Group

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

Past, Find, Sometimes

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

Wisdom, Words, Goes

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
Dee Dee Myers

Successful, Powerful, Succeed

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka

Free, Chains, Safer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Evil, Sense

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright

Stupid, Yourself, Woman

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

Success, Failure, Wisdom

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller

Deep, Dream, Lies

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide

Life, Actions, Decisive

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

Courage, Sense, Duty

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison

Death, Fear, Lives

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

Great, Men, Learning

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain

Life, Love, Fear

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stupidity, Mad, Saves

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere

Truth, Contrary, Believed

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Mason Cooley

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

Good, History, Nothing

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
William Hazlitt

Learned, Minded, Narrow

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt

Lazy, Learned, Talk

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. Rowling

Meet, Defiance, Damaged

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Four, Perhaps

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Guess, Venture

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Truth, Anonymity

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
Alvin Adams

Power, Help, Matter

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

Soul, Eye, Truthful

Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles

Despair, Disease, Breeds

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Nothing, Wishes

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fire, Thought, Makes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Talent, Genius, Ready

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