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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
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Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.: Robert Copeland
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
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Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.: Candice Bergen (1946 - )
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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)