Top 300 Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.”

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202. “Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can’t be sure until you change them.”

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203. “Aren’t I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.”

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204. “Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we’re alive.”

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205. “Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”

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206. “Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.”

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207. “It’s hard to face tomorrow, but it’s easier than facing no tomorrow.”

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208. “What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?”

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209. “What happened to you could have been worse – it could have happened to me.”

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210. “If you don’t like my opinion of you, you can always improve.”

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211. “If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.”

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212. “I have nothing definite to apologize for; I’m just sorry about everything in general.”

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213. “As long as I have you there is just one other thing I’ll always need – tremendous self control.”

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214. “You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.”

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215. “Time will end all my troubles, but I don’t always approve of Time’s methods.”

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216. “The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don’t do it!”

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217. “Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.”

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218. “Watch out! It’s quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven’t yet been made.”

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219. “The future seems to be in good hands, it’s the past I’m worried about.”

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220. “Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.”

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221. “At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.”

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222. “The majority is never right, unless it includes me.”

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223. “The case has been going on for so long that I’ve forgotten whether I’m really innocent or guilty.”

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224. “Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That’s way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”

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225. “With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world’s first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.”

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226. “If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.”

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227. “Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.”

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228. “If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.”

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229. “The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.”

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230. “Love is a strange commodity, because you can’t import it if you don’t also export it.”

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231. “How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?”

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232. “If coffee didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.”

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233. “Don’t call it freedom, unless it includes the freedom to be absolutely disgusting.”

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234. “My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.”

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235. “I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.”

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236. “Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.”

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237. “When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.”

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238. “My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.”

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239. “The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.”

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240. “The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.”

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241. “Life can be very deep, but I’m trying to stay at the shallow end.”

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242. “There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.”

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243. “Beware! I’m acting under the influence of human nature.”

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244. “Once I wanted total happiness – now I will settle for a little less pain.”

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245. “Why aren’t you more grateful when I prove how wrong you’ve been?”

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246. “To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don’t attempt to communicate with me again.”

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247. “It’s well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.”

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248. “I’m not always depressed: only when I think and feel.”

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249. “If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.”

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250. “Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?”

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