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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.: Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.: A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?': Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.: Elayne Boosler
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips