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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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This is like deja vu all over again.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.: Dale Carnegie
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )