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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.: Christina Petrowsky
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.: Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.: Candice Bergen (1946 - )
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
Well done is better than well said.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89