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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
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Louise Erdrich
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
We don't always get to choose what we love.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
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John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
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Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
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Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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