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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?: George Price
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.': Frederick L Collins
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Let's have some new cliches.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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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.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.: Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.: Gloria Borger
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
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And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.: Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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