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W. S. Gilbert
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
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Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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William Butler Yeats
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Unknown
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Robert Frost
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
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Oprah Winfrey
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
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George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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Mary H. Waldrip
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Casino
Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do.
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