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Truth has beauty, power and necessity.: Sylvia Ashton-Warner
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.: Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
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It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.: King Whitney Jr.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
God help those who do not help themselves.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)