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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
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Patricia Russell-McCloud
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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Bruce Barton
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
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Jewish Proverb
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
Art has never been made while thinking of art.
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Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Tom Blair
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.
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Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Grant Frazier
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
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Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
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Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
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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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