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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
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Ninety percent of the world`s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they`re almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. B...
Robert Heinlein
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all
Ralph B. Perry
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Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns
Mitch Ratcliffe
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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.
Larry Summers
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Subject: Misery QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Keywords: almost :: chair :: chippendale :: difficult :: easier :: famous :: is :: object :: skyscraper :: that :: very :: whySubject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
H. A. Hopf
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Getting divorced just because you don`t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
Barbara Holland
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
Tom Robbins
Keywords: almost :: as :: case :: death :: deep :: demand :: demands :: fear :: is :: life :: more :: of :: ordinarily :: people :: resentment :: results :: seated :: than :: the :: they :: what :: whenSubject: Death and Dying Quotes :: Fear Quotes :: Frustration Quotes :: Life Quotes :: People QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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We could say that meditation doesn`t have a reason or doesn`t have a purpose. In this respect it`s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don`t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as t...
Alan Watts
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.
Victor Hugo
Keywords: almost :: and :: as :: children :: doll :: girl :: impossible :: is :: little :: quite :: unfortunate :: without :: womanSubject: Femininity Quotes :: Women QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Subject: Right QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Adolph S. Ochs
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
Tre Cool
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I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. Like I`m at a carnival in a dream. Not sure that makes sense, but I do have pretty good pitch recognition. I see colors for different key signatures, ...
Christine Anderson
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
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