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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.: Leonard Louis Levinson
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pine
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.: John Atkinson
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)