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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.: Ellen Metcalf
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I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.: Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.: Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I didn't really say everything I said.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.: Dale Carnegie
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Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.: Lucille Clifton
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.: Eve Babitz
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