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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.: Ernest Benn
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 07-26-2012
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.: Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.: William Arthur Ward
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.: Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.: Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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