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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strong, Woman, Put

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett

Good, Truth, Lie

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Truth, Remember

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Forget, Remember, Learn

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

Good, Bad, Find

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Tupac Shakur

Best, Live, Find

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Person, Him

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Art, Before

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

Life, Find, Others

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn

Person, Him, Others

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

Someone, Communist, Lenin

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

Life, Live, Ask

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama

Political, While, Religious

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

Strength, Courage, Temptation

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power, Person, Yes

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Truth, Sex, Body

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn

Best, Honest, Read

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Fool, Yourself, Job

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali

Truth, Joke, Joking

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Life, Love, Morning

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho

Fear, Heart, Suffering

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Society, Try, Leader

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Fire, Light, Attention

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Husband, Country, Understand

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