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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
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Arab Proverb
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
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Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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Herman Wouk (1915 - )
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
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Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Audre Lorde
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
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alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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