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- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981)
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
- Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor For All Occasions
- There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
- It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
- Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - )
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