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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
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John J. Plomp
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
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Andrew W. Mathis
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
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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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