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Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're traveling in a time machine, and you're eating corn on the cob, I don't think it's going to affect things one way or the other. But here's the point I'm trying to make Corn on the cob is good, isn't it.
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Walter Bagehot
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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Benjamin Johnson
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Roy M. Cohn
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
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Katherine Mansfield
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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Unknown
J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport
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Edward Morgan Forster
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
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Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Louis D. Brandeis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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Unknown
(Think of one's self as a teakettle) Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to sing.
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