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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.: Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.: David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
There must be more to life than having everything.: Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.: William Safire (1929 - )
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.: Paul Johnson
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.: Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)