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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )