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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.: Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.: Charles Spencer
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.: John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.': Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)