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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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Norm Crosby
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
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Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
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Rita Rudner
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Living in a vacuum sucks.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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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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