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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

Talk, Soon, Agree

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life, Smile, Everything

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno

Great, Yourself, Self

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton

Great, Brain, Try

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Simple

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

Down, Old, Else

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx

Mad, Gone, Rational

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Ambrose Bierce

Change, Him, Makes

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Made, Friends, Living

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams

Government, Three, Four

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

Thinking, Talking, Admiral

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Love, Trust

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Lives, Tragedy

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas

Same, Others, Happens

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill

Happiness, Hope, Failure

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

Beauty, Real, Laugh

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Often, Laziness

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Truth, Lie, Before

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork

Society, Happy, Moral

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden

Else, Succeed, Idea

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women, Men, Talk

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson

Spring, Flowers, Autumn

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

Soul, Keep, Alive

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

Education, Mind, Worth

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Live, Wish

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Augustus Hare

Humble, Words, Proud

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Made, Second

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Great, Young

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
Harvey Fierstein

Nice, Bad, Before

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