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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Henry J. Tillman
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
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Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
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Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Any time and energy you spend hating and being angry at your ex will ultimately take a toll on you without effecting any positive changes in your ex or your relationship.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
War is not nice.
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Barbara Bush (1925 - )
It has all been very interesting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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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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