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-- Petrarch When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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-- Lynn My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Francis Bacon Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Arts and Entertainment
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never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
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other betrayals come.
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