Cullen Hightower Quotes - Page 2

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• A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

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  Block, Stones, Stumbling

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• People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

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  Best Marriage, Courtship

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• Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

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  Would Be, Generations, Argument

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• When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Money was invented
  so we could know exactly how much we owe.

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  Money, Knows, Values

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• Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

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  Anger, Way, Get Ahead

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• A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

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  Wages, Adequate, Pay

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• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

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  Knowledge, Thinking, Giving

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• The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

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  Pleasure, Ends, Gratification

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• The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

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  Moving, Credit, Wheels

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• Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

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  Running, Wisdom, Personal Opinions

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• A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

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  Integrity, Mind, Handle

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• If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

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  Television, Ifs

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• Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

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  Money, Flirting, Fickle

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• In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

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  Work, Law, Class

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• A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

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  Children, Order, Citizens

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• The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

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  Life, Age, Fleeting

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• Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

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  Law, Friendly

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• A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

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  Imagination, Illusion, Victim

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• One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

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  Kindness, Civilization, Differences

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• When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

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  Feet, Support, Good Enough

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• Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.

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  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

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  Ideas, Skepticism, Suspicion

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• Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

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  America, Citizens, Allegiance

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