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It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Quentin Crisp
They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
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Louis I Kahn
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
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Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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Charles Kuralt
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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A. Sachs
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
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Dr. David M. Burns
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
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William Bridges
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Jean Kerr
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
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Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
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alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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