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- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez (1941 - )
- There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
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