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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Minna Thomas Antrim
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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J. Frank Dobie (1888 - 1964), "A Texan in England", 1945
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
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Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
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Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
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Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
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A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Brenda Ueland
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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Minor White
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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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