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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.: Pat Conroy (1945 - )
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.: Arab Proverb
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.: Stella Benson
And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.: Stan Dunn
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950