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I think the world is run by 'C' students.: Al McGuire
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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.: Quintilian
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Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.: Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.: Stella Benson
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.: John Irving (1942 - )
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.': Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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