Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.

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William Feather

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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Anon.

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

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Mark Twain

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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The Dhammapada

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

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Ogden Nash

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

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Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

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Nathan M. Pusey

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

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Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

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Mark Twain

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Saadi

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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