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See also Core English Vocabulary (U) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#1) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#06) List-
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
William MacNeile Dixon
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they`re necessary to reach the places we`ve chosen to go.
Richard Bach
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: History QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
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The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman
Mexican Proverb
Subject: Family QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman
Mexican Proverb
Subject: Family QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it`s a sport.
Dick Gregory
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The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence
Marie Edgeworth
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape
Loren Eiseley
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Joseph Addison
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace
John Owen
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We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world`s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Richter
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Janet Watson
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Janet Watson
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May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God`s blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you`re seeking wherever you roam.
Irish Blessings
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us
Howard Mumford Jones
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Saint Basil
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the `unsearchable riches of Christ` - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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