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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.: James Carroll
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Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.: Norman Ford
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.: Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.: Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
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