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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Robert Bresson
What I dream of is an art of balance.
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Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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Jonathan Kozol
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
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Jeff Foxworthy
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
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Elayne Boosler
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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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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