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Let's have some new cliches.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.: Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.: William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
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Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.: Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.: Martha Stewart, in McCall's
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.: Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.: John Irving (1942 - )
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