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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
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Beryl Pfizer
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Dick Gregory (1932 - )
This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Wendell Berry
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
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Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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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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