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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
A friend is a second self.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Latin Proverb
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
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John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
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Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
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Roseanne Barr
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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John Hope Franklin
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid.
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Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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