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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.: Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
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The best way to get approval is not to need it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.: Meladee McCarty
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)