Harry Allen Overstreet Quotes

#1. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

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#2. The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

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#3. The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

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#4. Don't try to fit in; try to change.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#6. A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

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#7. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Andrew Carnegie

#8. People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Mary Lambert

#9. How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

Georg Buchner

#10. You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

Rani Mukerji

#11. Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

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#12. The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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#13. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

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#14. Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

Jessica Zafra

#15. Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

Marty Rubin

#16. You can't spend your life being afraid of what other people think

Leah Rae Miller

#17. Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

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#18. Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

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#19. Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

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#20. If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work

Jeff Chain

#21. To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

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#22. Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

Donita K. Paul

#23. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

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#24. Time the devourer of everything.

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#25. Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

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#26. Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

Sivananda

#27. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

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