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Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.: Cullen Hightower
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.: Norman Douglas
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.: Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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The more you know, the less you need.: Aboriginal Saying
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.: Tom Thompson
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.: David Letterman (1947 - )
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.: Garry Shandling (1949 - )
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.: Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938)
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.: Susan Partnow
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.: Gordon Parks
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88