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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.: Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
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This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.: Robertson Davies
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.: Alfred A. Knopf
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.: Segal's Law
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary