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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.: John le Carre (1931 - )
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
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If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.: Edward Chilton
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.: Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.: Spanish Proverb
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.: Anonymous, French slogan
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.: Robert Sternberg
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One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.: Hugh Prather