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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
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R. D. Laing
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
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Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
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Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Genius is of no country.
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Charles Churchill
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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Chinese Proverb
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
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Josiah Quincy
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Quintilian
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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Ben Stein
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
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Corita Kent
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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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