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Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.: Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.: Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.: Japanese Proverb
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.: Robert Byrne
Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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