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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.: Peter De Vries
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.: Shakti Gawain
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.: Peter McArthur
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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