Which of these quotes are a quote by Oprah Winfrey

10 07 2007

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Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who’ll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
In the past decade or so, the women’s magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination… If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world existed.

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The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Huxley
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
Richard M. Nixon

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Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn’t hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
X2 X-Men United
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
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Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Anon.
Follow the grain in your own wood.
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Think about a woman. Doesn’t know you’re thinking about her. Doesn’t care you’re thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
Sybil Adelman
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.
Jewish Proverb
If you see an animal and you can’t tell if it’s a skunk or a cat, here’s a good saying to help ‘Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.’
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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
Hubert Humphrey
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
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Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear
Lord Byron

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