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The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.
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Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
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Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
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Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
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Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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Lord Salisbury
I dote on his very absence.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
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Kurt Herbert Alder
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
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Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
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Zach Braff
If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.
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John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945), Benchley's Law of Distinction
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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