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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.
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Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
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Mary Caroline Davies
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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Sydney J. Harris
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
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Rose Cherin
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
It has all been very interesting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
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Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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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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