Quotes

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“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

"Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" <!-- p. 72 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Context: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”

Herbert M. Shelton (1895–1985) American medical writer

Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.

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“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”

Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician

Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

Mark Nepo (1951) American writer

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have