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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.: Halifax
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Parents, 11-14-2011
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.: Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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One must desire something to be alive.: Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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Be not slow to visit the sick.: Ecclesiastes
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Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.: George Fabricius, 'In Praise of Georgius Agricola'
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.: don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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