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- It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
- Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
- [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
- The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05
- I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
- Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
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