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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." Franklin P. Adams 4.0000 average rating  
"The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone." Henry Brooks Adams 4.8889 average rating  
"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." James Truslow Adams 4.5556 average rating  
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." James Truslow Adams 4.5500 average rating  
"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." James Truslow Adams 4.8182 average rating  
"If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." Jay Edward Adams 3.3000 average rating  
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Quincy Adams 4.7414 average rating  
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." Samuel Adams 4.6230 average rating  
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Joseph Addison 4.3043 average rating  
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover." Joseph Addison 4.5849 average rating  
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." Æschylus 4.9444 average rating  
"Little friends may prove great friends." Aesop 4.7143 average rating  
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." Aesop 4.0000 average rating  
"You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil." Aesop  
"Love is a great beautifier." Louisa May Alcott 4.4737 average rating  
"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." Shana Alexander 3.3333 average rating  
"The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." Woody Allen 4.7778 average rating  
"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." George Washington Allston 3.6667 average rating  
"Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world." Becky Alunan 4.6923 average rating  
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." Eric Anderson 4.6000 average rating  
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