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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
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Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
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Japanese Proverb
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
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Kurt Herbert Alder
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
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Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
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Jewish Proverb
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.
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Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
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David Shore, House M.D., Pilot, 2004
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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