Chilon Quotes

#1. You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.

Dave Eggers

#2. If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

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#3. Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

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#4. You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

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#6. Religion is for followers ... Followers and puppets.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#8. Do nothing immoderate.

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#9. I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Robert Caro

#10. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

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#11. There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

Mark Messier

#12. We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Shannon Hoon

#13. Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

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#14. Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

Ann Coulter

#15. When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

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#16. Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#17. Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

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#18. I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

Charlie Puth

#19. My life should not be owned by others ,I should take a lead of it

Abhishek

#20. The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

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#21. If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

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#22. A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

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#23. Do not make too much haste on one's road.

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#24. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

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#26. Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

Daniel J. Bernstein