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- Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- Instant gratification takes too long.
- Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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