Thomas Jefferson

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Happiness is the sum of all the misfortunes we don’t have.” — Marcel Achard

“If we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we can never act together. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.” — Thomas Jefferson

“But because I do it with a small ship, I am called a pirate, whilst you, who do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.” — Saint Augustine

“If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.” – — George Bernard Shaw

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.” — Thomas Jefferson

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” — Michele Ruiz

“If I had my life to live over, I wouldn’t have time.” — Roger Miller

“After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: ‘She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!'” — Ava Gardner

 

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“If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own.” — Diahann Carrol

“A person who won’t listen to others will eventually be surrounded by people that have nothing to say [ed].” — Andy Stanley

“I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.” — Thomas Jefferson

“If your body is 90 per cent water why have you got to drink water all the time? Why can’t you just have some crisps?” — Russell Brand

 

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“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage.” — A. R. Ammons

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson

“His silence on the subject was a fence I wasn’t supposed to cross. But I’d shoved past no-trespassing signs before.” — Mary Karr

“I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.” — Flannery O’Connor

 

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“If you are an egg seller, you should never start a fight in the market.” — Vikrant Parsai

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” — Thomas Jefferson

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.” — Ellen Goodman

“I’m so busy, I don’t know whether I found a rope or lost my horse.” — Mark Schaefer

 

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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol

“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.” — Andre Gide

“Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.” — Thomas Jefferson

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” — Charles De Gaulle

 
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“No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes you have to take things on faith, even if you don’t have any faith.” — Patty Flack

“It is dangerous to confuse vengeance with justice.” — Hua Mulan

“The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.” — Dave Barry

 
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“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.” — David Hume

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” — Camille Pissarro

“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” — Thomas Jefferson

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” — Dorothy Parker

 


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STATUS QUOtes — 20170106

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“Information is the currency of democracy.” — Thomas Jefferson

“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.” — Wilson Mizner

“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.” — Leigh Hunt

“You know you are getting older when ‘Happy Hour’ is a nap.” — Gray Kristofferson

 

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“The most destructive thing I’ve ever done was believe someone else’s opinion of me.” — via the Teal Blue Jay

“Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery – not over nature but of ourselves.” — Rachel Carson

“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it.” — Greg Behrendt

 

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