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I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
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Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The wisest men follow their own direction.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Stephen King (1947 - ), "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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M. Cartmill
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You try to give away what you want yourself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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Cullen Hightower
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
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Penn Jillette (1955 - )
When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!
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Laurie Anderson
I read part of it all the way through.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Jane Wagner
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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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