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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.: Bill Hoest
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.: Joseph Vanderstel
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.: E. V. Lucas
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.: Jim Horning
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.: Bob Newhart (1929 - )
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.: William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
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