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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.
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Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.
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Rita Mae Brown
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949), The Blue Lion and Other Essays
I am a deeply superficial person.
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Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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Maya Angelou (1928 - )
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I row after health like a waterman...
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 11-05-09
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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Jessie Sampter
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
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Cyra McFadden
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Ramsay Clark
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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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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