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A random selection of fabulous
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A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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Zeuxis
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
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Timothy Leary
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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Langston Coleman
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.
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James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
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Grant Wood
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
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Jonathan Swift
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Lord Newborough
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
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Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
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Rodin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Woody Allen
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
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George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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