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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
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John le Carre (1931 - )
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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Edward Chilton
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
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Spanish Proverb
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.
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Anonymous, French slogan
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
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Robert Sternberg
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
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Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Hugh Prather
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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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