Quote by Josh Billings
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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Pride
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I havent got as much money as some folks, but Ive got as much impudence as any of them, and thats the next thing to money. – Josh Billings

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Money
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Dont take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. – Josh Billings

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Control
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The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. – Peter Singer

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Hope

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. – Jonathan Carroll

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Hope

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. – Stephen King

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Hope

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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Hope

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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. – M. Scott Peck

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power

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. – Richard M. Nixon

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Freedom

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. – Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem

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Integrity

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponents playing ability is comparable, does the game develop. – Vladimir Kramnik

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strength