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A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.: Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.: Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.: Vida D. Scudder
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
I read part of it all the way through.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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