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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.


Francis Picabia

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MARGARET MITCHELL The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, beca...
ROBERT REDFORD A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.
STEVE KLUGER A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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ARRON AFFLALO An original is worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
PETER KREEFT The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing an...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND The only thing that's off limits is stuff that bores us.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
PAT CASH There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni...
G. K. CHESTERTON An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
SENEGALESE PROVERB Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
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ALFRED HERSHEY Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
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KALEY CUOCO I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
MOLIERE A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KHALIL GIBRAN A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KAHLIL GIBRAN An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
PROVERB An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
SPANISH PROVERB Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.
SUZY KASSEM Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
SUZY KASSEM An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
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BILL WATTERSON Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
GEORG HERMES Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!
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JOHN ADAMS Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy ...
JOHN ADAMS Work provides more than just a paycheck -- it's a feeling of self-worth.
JOE QUINN A penny that dropped is worth more than a million in the bank.
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Let us...
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SUE MONK KIDD Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
OSCAR WILDE Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences.
TOBA BETA An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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JACQUES MARITAIN Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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LAURIE GRAHAM God’s grace is so much more powerful of a motivator than fear. Love is the deepest motivator. Only...
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SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
PROVERB Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
KOREAN PROVERB Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, e...
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DEAN BRIGGS Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake - that litt...
DEAN BRIGGS Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

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DR. MICHAEL AKHIYAT I've counted 100 cars in five minutes, in what is supposed to be a 35-mile-an-hour zone, ... that fi...
GEORGE REEVES Nothing lasts forever than the present, that is why we care.
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FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
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FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
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FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
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FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
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FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
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FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
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FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
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FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
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FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
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FRANCIS QUARLES If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools.
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FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth.
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FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
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FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON