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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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Harry Vaughan, Time, Apr. 28, 1952
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929), Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
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Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
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