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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.: Jodie Foster (1962 - )
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.: Bonnie Prudden
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.: Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)