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Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.: Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.: Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
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There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty"
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.: Unknown
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.: Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.: Demetri Martin, The Overthinker, Netflix, 2018
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)