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A random selection of fabulous
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Quotations from Famous People - 185
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Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Betty Naomi Friedan
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all
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James Grover Thurber
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Robert Frost
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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Muriel Spark
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Publilius Syrus
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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Geoffrey F. Albert
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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James T. Farrell
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
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Clay Aiken
I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.
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