Famous Quotes
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| There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Indira Gandhi
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Indian politician
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(1917 - 1984)
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| Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
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Margaret Mead
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US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology
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(1901 - 1978)
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| For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
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Eric Ambler
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| Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
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Cathy Guisewite
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| Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
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Harriet Braiker
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| Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
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Margaret Mitchell
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US novelist
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(1900 - 1949)
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| The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Celia Green
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| Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
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Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
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| My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lillian Hellman
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US dramatist
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(1905 - 1984)
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| Whenever I get married I start buying <br>Gourmet Magazine<br>.
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Nora Ephron
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| Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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Harriet Van Horne
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| What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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Nora Ephron
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| Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
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M. F. K. Fisher
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| No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
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Mary Queen of Scots
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| For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Jane Austen
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English novelist
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(1775 - 1817)
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| The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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Iris Murdoch
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British novelist
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(1919 - 1999)
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| I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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Nancy Mitford
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| I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
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Marlene Dietrich
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German movie actress
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(1901 - 1992)
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| The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Anatole France
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French novelist
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(1844 - 1924)
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| What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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Margot Asquith
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| You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Rose Macauley
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| I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Queen Victoria
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| Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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Hannah More, 1775
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| I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Bette Midler
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US actress, comedienne, & singer
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(1945 -
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| I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Dorothy Parker, book review
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US author, humorist, poet, & wit
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(1893 - 1967)
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| The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.
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Dorothy Parker
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US author, humorist, poet, & wit
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(1893 - 1967)
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| My favorite animal is steak.
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Fran Lebowitz
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US writer and humorist
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(1950 -
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| God is love, but get it in writing.
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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US actress & stripper
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(1914 - 1970)
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| The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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Rebecca West
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Irish critic, journalist, & novelist
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(1892 - 1983)
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| The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.\
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Dorothy Parker
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US author, humorist, poet, & wit
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(1893 - 1967)
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| If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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Nora Ephron
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| Nothing succeeds like address.
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Fran Lebowitz
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US writer and humorist
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(1950 -
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| Oregano is the spice of life.
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Henry J. Tillman
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| The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
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Ty-Grace Atkinson
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| I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
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Madame Curie
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| When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Katharine Hepburn
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US actress
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(1907 - 2003)
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| When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
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Margaret Turnbull
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| Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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H. L. Mencken
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US editor
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(1880 - 1956)
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| If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
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French writer
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(1900 - 1944)
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| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Edith Sitwell
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English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet
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(1887 - 1964)
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| By whom?
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Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken
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US author, humorist, poet, & wit
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(1893 - 1967)
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| It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Nancy Astor
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British politician
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(1879 - 1964)
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| Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
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Helen Gurley Brown
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| If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
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Ruby Manikan
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| This Englishwoman is so refined <br> She has no bosom and no behind.
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Stevie Smith
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| I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
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(1854 - 1900)
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| I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Virginia Woolf
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English novelist
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(1882 - 1941)
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| Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Virginia Woolf
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English novelist
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(1882 - 1941)
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| Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
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Rosalind Russell
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| The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.
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Collen McCullough
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| Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
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Missy Dizick
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| My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
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Jane Fonda
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| Actions lie louder than words.
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Carolyn Wells
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| There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
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Joan Rivers
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US comedienne
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(1935 -
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| All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
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Gloria Swanson
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US actress
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(1899 - 1983)
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| It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Betty Friedan
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| Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
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Josephine Tey
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| Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Barbara Stanwyck
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| If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
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Phyllis Chesler
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| We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
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Alison Lurie
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| Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
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Laurie Colwin
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| If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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Rita Mae Brown
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US author and social activist
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| The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.
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Xaviera Hollander
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| There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Clare Booth Luce
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US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician
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(1903 - 1987)
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| I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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Joan Rivers
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US comedienne
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(1935 -
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| A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.
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Lillian Day
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| The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
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| Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
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Judith Stern
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| Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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English novelist
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(1819 - 1880)
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| To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Nancy Mitford
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| The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Mark Twain, in Christian Science
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US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
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(1835 - 1910)
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| In love there are things --- bodies and words.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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US author
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(1938 -
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| Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Iris Murdoch
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British novelist
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(1919 - 1999)
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| Never give up and never face the facts.
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Ruth Gordon
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| In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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Katharine Whitehorn
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| The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.
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Nancy Astor
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British politician
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(1879 - 1964)
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| Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.
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Sally Poplin
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| I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
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Judy Garland
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US actress & singer
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(1922 - 1969)
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| I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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| Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
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Clare Booth Luce
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US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician
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(1903 - 1987)
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| They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Clare Booth Luce
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US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician
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(1903 - 1987)
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| The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.
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Lady Bird Johnson
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US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934
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(1912 -
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| I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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English letter author & poet
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(1689 - 1762)
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| One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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Muriel Spark
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British author
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(1918 -
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| Power is the ability not to have to please.
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Elizabeth Janeway
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| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Mark Twain
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US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
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(1835 - 1910)
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| Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Susan Sontag
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US author & critic
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(1933 -
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| Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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Elinor Glyn
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| It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
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George Eliot
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English novelist
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(1819 - 1880)
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| The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
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Joan Rivers
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US comedienne
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(1935 -
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| When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.
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Princess Anne
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| The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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Charles Luckman
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| Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
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Helen Lawrenson
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| To err is human, but is feels divine.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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Kathleen Norris
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| Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
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US psychologist & television personality
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(1928 -
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| I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
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Madame de Sevigne
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| I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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| The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Fran Lebowitz
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US writer and humorist
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(1950 -
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| Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
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Margaret Miller
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| The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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Frank Zappa
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US musician, singer, & songwriter
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(1940 - 1993)
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| It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them.
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Dame Rose Macauley
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| There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
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Harriet Van Horne.
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| On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Anita Loos
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| Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
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Mae West
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US movie actress
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(1892 - 1980)
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| If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
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Mary Webb
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| War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Hannah Arendt
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US (German-born) historian & social philosopher
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(1906 - 1975)
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| Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
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Dame Rebecca West
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| Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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Katharine Hepburn
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US actress
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(1907 - 2003)
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| All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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Marya Mannes
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| Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
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Naomi Bliven
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| A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Edna Ferber
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US author
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(1887 - 1968)
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| The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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| Elegance is refusal.
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Coco Chanel
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French fashion designer & perfumer
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(1883 - 1971)
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| Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Alexis Carrel
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French biologist & surgeon
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(1873 - 1944)
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| Most people ignore most poetry <br> because <br> most poetry ignores most people.
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Adrian Mitchell
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| What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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Margot Asquith
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| Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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Kathleen Norris
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| It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
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Lillian Bell
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| To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Madame Swetchine
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| Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them.
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Helen Rowland
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(1876 - 1950)
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| People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
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Mary McCarthy
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| Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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Elizabeth Adamson
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| My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Emily Dickinson
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US poet
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(1830 - 1886)
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| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
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(1854 - 1900)
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| To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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Simone Weil
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French social philosopher
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(1909 - 1943)
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| Hope is a thing with feathers <br> That perches in the soul, <br> And sings the tune without word
s <br> And never stops at all.
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Emily Dickinson
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US poet
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(1830 - 1886)
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| Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
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Agnes Repplier
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US essayist
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(1855 - 1950)
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| My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
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Rita Rudner
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US comedian
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| Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
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Katharine Whitehorn
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| Eating without conversation is only stoking.
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Marcelene Cox
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| I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
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Katherine Mansfield
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New Zealand short story author
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(1888 - 1923)
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| To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
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Katherine Tynan Hinkson
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| There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
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Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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| The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
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Marcelene Cox
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| All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Simone Weil
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French social philosopher
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(1909 - 1943)
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| Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
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Anne Frank
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German Jewish diarist
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(1929 - 1945)
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| I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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Lillian Hellman
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US dramatist
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(1905 - 1984)
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| It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
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Lillian Hellman
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US dramatist
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(1905 - 1984)
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| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Erica Jong
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| If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
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| The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Agnes Repplier
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US essayist
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(1855 - 1950)
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| Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Edgar Watson Howe
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US journalist
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(1853 - 1937)
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| Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
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Pearl Buck
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US novelist in China
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(1892 - 1973)
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| Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Simone Weil
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French social philosopher
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(1909 - 1943)
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| When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
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Kathleen Norris
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| A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
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Marcelene Cox
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| Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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May Sarton
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| Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Edna Ferber
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US author
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(1887 - 1968)
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| Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
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US psychologist & television personality
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(1928 -
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| I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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Marilyn Monroe
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US actress
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(1926 - 1962)
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| I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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| I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
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Shirley Temple Black
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| The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.
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Berta Buxton
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| Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Irish dramatist & socialist
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(1856 - 1950)
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| Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Voltaire
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French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist
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(1694 - 1778)
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| It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Pierre Beaumarchais
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French businessman & comic dramatist
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(1732 - 1799)
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| No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Harold Rosenberg
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| The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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B. F. Skinner
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US psychologist
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(1904 - 1990)
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| Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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Christopher Morley
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US author & journalist
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(1890 - 1957)
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| Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
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Thomas Jefferson
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3rd president of US
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(1743 - 1826)
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| What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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(1742 - 1799)
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| Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Frank Moore Colby
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| Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Laurence J. Peter
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US educator & writer
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(1919 - 1988)
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| Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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Charles Peters
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| The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
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US politician
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(1916 -
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| Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Milton Friedman
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US economist
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(1912 -
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| I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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John Cleese
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English actor & comedian
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(1939 -
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)
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| This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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British movie director
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(1899 - 1980)
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| I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
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Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
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| Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Oscar Wilde
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Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
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(1854 - 1900)
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| The big thieves hang the little ones.
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Czech Proverb
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| Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Russell Baker
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US columnist & journalist
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(1925 -
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| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Fred Allen
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US radio comedian
�
(1894 - 1956)
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| Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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William Feather
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�
(1908 - 1976)
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| A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Colette
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French novelist
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(1873 - 1954)
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| I am just going outside and may be some time.
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Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
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�
(1880 - 1912)
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| Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
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Robert Orben
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| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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Russell Green
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| Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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Edward Shepherd Mead
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| Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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| The computer is a moron.
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Peter Drucker
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| A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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Fred Allen
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US radio comedian
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(1894 - 1956)
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| I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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James Thurber
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist
�
(1894 - 1961)
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| All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
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English essayist, novelist, & satirist
�
(1903 - 1950)
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| Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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Will Rogers
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US humorist & showman
�
(1879 - 1935)
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| Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Benjamin Franklin
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US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer
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(1706 - 1790)
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| Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
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Howard Scott
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�
(1926 -
�
)
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| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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�
(1742 - 1799)
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| It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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English dramatist & novelist
�
(1874 - 1965)
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| Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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Clement Atlee
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| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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H. L. Mencken
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US editor
�
(1880 - 1956)
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| The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Oscar Levant
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�
(1906 - 1972)
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| In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
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Thomas Pickering
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US diplomat
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(1931 -
�
)
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| The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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English essayist, novelist, & satirist
�
(1903 - 1950)
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| Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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| It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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James Thurber
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist
�
(1894 - 1961)
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| An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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| Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
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British historian
�
(1876 - 1962)
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| Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Frank Leahy
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| People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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Russell Baker
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US columnist & journalist
�
(1925 -
�
)
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| Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Laurence J. Peter
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US educator & writer
�
(1919 - 1988)
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| I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Mark Twain
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US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
�
(1835 - 1910)
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| One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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British (Canadian-born) physician
�
(1849 - 1919)
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| Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
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English poet & satirist
�
(1688 - 1744)
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| An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
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Benjamin Stolberg
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| If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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Lord Salisbury
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| It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
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English author & politician
�
(1800 - 1859)
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| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Danish philosopher
�
(1813 - 1855)
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| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer
|
�
(1902 - 1983)
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| I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
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Tom Stoppard
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British dramatist & screenwriter
�
(1937 -
�
)
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| A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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Kin Hubbard
|
�
(1868 - 1930)
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| Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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Chester Bowles
|
US diplomat & economist
�
(1901 - 1986)
|
| One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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Rita Mae Brown
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US author and social activist
�
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| To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Gustave Flaubert
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French realist novelist
�
(1821 - 1880)
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| It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Evelyn Waugh
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English novelist & satirist
�
(1903 - 1966)
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| Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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William Ralph Inge
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English author & Anglican prelate
�
(1860 - 1954)
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| In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
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Rita Rudner
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US comedian
�
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| Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,<br> A medley of extemporanea; <br>And love is a thing that c
an never go wrong; <br>And I am Marie of Romania.
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Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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US author, humorist, poet, & wit
�
(1893 - 1967)
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| Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Don Marquis
|
US humorist
�
(1878 - 1937)
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| Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Mark Twain
|
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
�
(1835 - 1910)
|
| Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Aldous Huxley
|
English critic & novelist
�
(1894 - 1963)
|
| The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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H. L. Mencken
|
US editor
�
(1880 - 1956)
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| Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Joseph Wood Krutch
|
US author & critic
�
(1893 - 1970)
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| Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Gertrude Stein
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US author in France
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(1874 - 1946)
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| You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
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Robert Frost
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US poet
�
(1874 - 1963)
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
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US educator & writer
�
(1919 - 1988)
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| Instant gratification takes too long.
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Carrie Fisher
|
US author & movie actress
�
(1956 -
�
)
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| There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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Henry Adams
|
US author, autobiographer, & historian
�
(1838 - 1918)
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| I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Mahatma Gandhi
|
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
�
(1869 - 1948)
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| An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
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Evelle J. Younger
|
| Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
|
Alvin Toffler
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| Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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Anonymous
|
| For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
|
Clifton Fadiman
|
US author, editor, & radio host
�
(1904 -
�
)
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| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Max Planck
|
| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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US essayist & poet
�
(1803 - 1882)
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| Life is a long lesson in humility.
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James M. Barrie
|
Scottish dramatist & novelist
�
(1860 - 1937)
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| Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
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Albert Einstein
|
US (German-born) physicist
�
(1879 - 1955)
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| The only limits are those of vision.
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James Broughton
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| Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
|
Randall Wallace
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| You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
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Ian Gabirol
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| We are the total of our longings.
|
Guy Gavriel Kay
|
| In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
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Henry David Thoreau
|
US Transcendentalist author
�
(1817 - 1862)
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| Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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Paul Claudel
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| Hatred is the anger of the weak.
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Alphonse Daudet
|
| When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
|
Mark Twain
|
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
�
(1835 - 1910)
|
| What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
|
Alain
|
| Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
|
Friedrich Nietzsche
|
German philosopher
�
(1844 - 1900)
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| A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.
|
Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
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Quotations by unknown authors
�
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| Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
|
James Allen
|
| Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
US juvenile novelist
�
(1832 - 1888)
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| It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
|
Richard Bach
|
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we d
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