Robert Quillen Quotes

• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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  Anger, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

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  Funny, Age, Anecdotes

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• Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Character

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• If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

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  Science, Space, Wish

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• God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

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  Giving, Belief, Give Me

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• The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

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  Simple, Secret, Happy Marriage

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• The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

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  Ignorance, Tragedy, Complacency

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• It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

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  Kindness, People, Secret

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• Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

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  Jobs, Government, Anxious

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• Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

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  Hurt, Giving Up, Feel Better

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• Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

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  Humorous, Loss, Exercise

  "The Sage of Fountain Inn" by Alexander Woollcott in Cosmopolitan magazine, September 1933.

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• Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

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  Morning, Past, Wish

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• You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

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  Fun, Weather, Forget

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• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

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• The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

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  Successful, One Word

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• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Thankful

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• Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

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  Years, Differences, Dying

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• If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

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  Giving, Mind, Attention

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