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- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole."
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
- Desmond Morris
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
- Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
- The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
- Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.
- Louis C. K., Vanity Fair interview, 2013
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