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2009-03-12 00:10
Summary
Memorize various quotes.
Short
| Person | Quote |
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| Shakespeare | Brevity is the soul of wit. |
| Plato | The unexamined life is not worth living. |
| Emerson | To be great is to be misunderstood. |
| Aristotle | Hope is a waking dream. |
| Franklin | Who has deceiv'd thee so oft as thy self? |
| Socrates | Let him that would move the world first move himself. |
| memorize |
Short II
| Person | Quote |
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| Lincoln | Let none falter who thinks he is right. |
| Franklin | Industry need not wish. |
| Shakespeare | All that glitters is not gold. |
| Aristotle | No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. |
| Emerson | I hate quotes. |
| Shakespeare | How use doth breed a habit in a man. |
| memorize |
Short III
| Person | Quote |
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| Plato | Death is not the worst that can happen to men. |
| Socrates | Beware the barrenness of a busy life. |
| Aristotle | Happiness is a sort of action. |
| Franklin | Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason. |
| Plato | The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
| Franklin | There will be sleeping enough in the Grave. |
| memorize |
Medium
| Person | Quote |
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| Mother Theresa | Men do no great things, only small things with great love. |
| Shakespeare | We know what we are, but not what we may be. |
| Aristotle | The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. |
| Mother Theresa | Men do no great things, only small things with great love |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. |
| memorize |
Medium II
| Person | Quote |
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| Aldous Huxley | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. |
| Shakespeare | When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools. |
| Bert Leston Taylor | A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. |
| Harlan Ellison | If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. |
| William James | A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. |
| Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey | If you educate a man, you educate an individual; but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation. |
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