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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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Put up with it and you will get more of it.: Lynne Deal
If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.: David Peterson
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.: Spike Milligan
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.: Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.: Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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