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Knowledge is power.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
The world is round; it has no point.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
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
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
A joke's a very serious thing.
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Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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Peter De Vries
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
Live forever or die in the attempt.
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Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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Marston Bates
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Jerry Chin
It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
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Olga Ilyin
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
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Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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