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John Keats
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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Curtis Dahl
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.
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Voltaire
The way to become boring is to say everything.
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Bill Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
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Matthew Prior, "Hans Carvel" (1701)
The ends must justify the means.
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Jacques Cousteau
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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Hans Hofmann
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Solon
Learn to obey before you command.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
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Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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