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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.: Halifax
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.: John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.: Fats Domino (1928 - )
The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.: Elisa Camahort, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.: Herb Caen
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'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Men who never get carried away should be.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.: William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)