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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.: Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.: E. Joseph Cossman
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.: Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
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