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Thornton
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Bertrand Russell
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
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Ben Hecht
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Johann von Goethe
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
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Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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Cary Grant
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
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George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.
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Bob Edwards
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Peter Quennell
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
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Voltaire
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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