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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
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Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
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Bobby Knight (1940 - )
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
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Rita Rudner
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Gail Godwin
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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