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The sky had never held much interest for her, being in the opposite direction one must look if one was to enjoy a book.: Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, 2023
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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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)
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.: H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.: Mary S. Calderone
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
By the time we've made it, we've had it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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Do not employ handsome servants.: Chinese Proverb
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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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