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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
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Kathleen Casey Theisen
Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.
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Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
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Marvin Minsky
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Not going home is already like death.
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E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
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Anonymous
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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Fulton J. Sheen
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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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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