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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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Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.: Lynda Barry
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Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), misquoting Sir Walter Scott
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.: Mary O'Hara
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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