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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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All the world's a cage.: Jeanne Phillips
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.: Vic Gold
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?: Ronnie Shakes
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.: Farrah Gray
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne