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You must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.: Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.: John Mayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 05-14-12
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.: P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.: Noelie Altito
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
Sanity is a madness put to good use.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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