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The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.
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Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
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Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
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Patricia Moyes
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
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Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
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Roger Allen
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Henry Allen
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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Robert Chapman
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
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Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
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Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
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Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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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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