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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.: Yugoslav Proverb
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Even God cannot change the past.: Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
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I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.: Payne Stewart
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.: Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.: Cher (1946 - )