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- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
- If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Vaughan, Time, Apr. 28, 1952
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- 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."
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
- The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on. - Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
- Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Closed Doors (1944)
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