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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
The longest journey is the journey inward.
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Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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Millicent Fenwick
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
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Henry C. Link
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It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.
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Lisa Williams, Bloggers In Love, SXSW 2006
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Rita Mae Brown
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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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
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