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There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
Walking is man's best medicine.
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Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Henry Allen
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
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Jack Handey (1949 - )
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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Howard Dietz
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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Joan Didion (1934 - )
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911
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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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