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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain: Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
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It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.: Jerry Garcia
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.: John Cleese (1939 - )
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.: Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
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Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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