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Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
You should not live one way in private, another in public.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.: Grenville Kleiser
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When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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He who laughs, lasts!: Mary Pettibone Poole
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.: Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday, 2004
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.: David Brin (1950 - )
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When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.: Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
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