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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.: Bruce Barton
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.: Jewish Proverb
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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Life is full of obstacle illusions.: Grant Frazier
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).: Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)