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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
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Lucille Clifton
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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Halifax
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.
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Eli Attie, House M.D., Parents, 11-14-2011
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
One must desire something to be alive.
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Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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Don Herold
Be not slow to visit the sick.
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Ecclesiastes
Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
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George Fabricius, 'In Praise of Georgius Agricola'
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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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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