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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
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Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
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Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
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Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
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Martha Stewart, in McCall's
To play it safe is not to play.
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Robert Altman (1925 - 2007)
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)
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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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