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- Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
- Elvis Costello (1954 - ), from "Riot Act"
- I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
- Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862), taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
- A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
- Brendan Francis
- I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
- Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968), on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
- When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824
- Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- What we’re saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - ), Speech in San Francisco, 1968
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