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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.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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A friend is a second self.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.: 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.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.: 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.: 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?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.: Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
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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.: 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.: 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.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator