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  Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.

  Richard Kemp

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• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

  Brendan Behan

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

  William Feather

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• Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

  Barbara Pym

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• The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

  Susan Sontag

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• He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  Rudyard Kipling

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• Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

  Lama Surya Das

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• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  Sophocles

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Satir

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!

  Anna Garlin Spencer

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• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

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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 recognizably wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

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• But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn’t just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

  Yossi Klein Halevi

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Francois Marie Arouet

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• Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

  Joseph Roux

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

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