Which of these quotes are a quote by Kahlil Gibran

10 07 2007

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Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of.
B. J. Gupta
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Bible
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Clive Staples Lewis

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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men’s heads.
Charles Caleb Colton
The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.
Ralph Kiner
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
It’s true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings. But what they don’t tell you is, every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire.
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But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare
Don’t be so humble - you are not that great.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln

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People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp… But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The politician is … trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.
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Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

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