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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.: Patricia Moyes
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.: Robert Byrne
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.: Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
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Be not slow to visit the sick.: Ecclesiastes
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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