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Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.: Rita Mae Brown
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.: Russel Lynes
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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No human thing is of serious importance.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.: Ralph W. Sockman
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Nothing else exists when art does.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux, 2004
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.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )