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- Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.
- Alacia Bessette, Simply from Scratch, 2010
- When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can."
- Richard Petty
- Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- The moist star, upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 1
- We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), Remark in election meeting in Nagpur, India 1967
- An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
- To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Fred Astaire
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