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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
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Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.: Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.: Rodney Carrington
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.: Liberace (1919 - 1987)
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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