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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.: Mitch Albom
Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.: Joe E. Lewis
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.: Bill Vaughan
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.: Will Durst
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.: Jerry Garcia