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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....: Carl Zwanzig
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.: Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
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My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.: Ronnie Shakes
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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As I was walking up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.: Hughes Mearns
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.: Anonymous, French slogan