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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
It is bad luck to be superstitious.: Andrew W. Mathis
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.: O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)