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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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Halifax
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
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Fats Domino (1928 - )
The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.
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Elisa Camahort, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
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Herb Caen
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Men who never get carried away should be.
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Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
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Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
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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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