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At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
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David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Peter De Vries
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935), "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
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Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)
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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (attributed)
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.
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George Saunders, The Guardian (UK) July 22, 2006
No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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