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Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.: William Baziotes
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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
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Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.: Dave Kellett, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.: Hugh Prather
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Young Hope, 04-26-13
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
'If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.: Robert Anton Wilson
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To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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