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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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• 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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• 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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• Most of the time I quote myself. It’s not arrogance, it’s a writer’s job.

  Vanna Bonta

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• For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do.

  Sam Walter Foss

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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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