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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.: Alice Childress
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.: Arab Proverb
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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.: Amy Dacyczyn
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces