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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
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Tommy Smothers
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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Welsh Proverb
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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
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