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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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All movements go too far.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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Never spend your money before you have it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.: Marvin Minsky
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