Perspective Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Antonio Porchia,
William Shakespeare
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| The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
| - Douglas Adams |
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| Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. |
| - Henri Frédéric Amiel |
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| Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. |
| - Martin Amis |
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| In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. |
| - Brooks Atkinson |
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| A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| No one knows what they'll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. |
| - Joan Baez |
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| Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. |
| - James Baldwin |
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| Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. |
| - James Baldwin |
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| For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. |
| - Elizabeth Bowen |
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| My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. |
| - Ashleigh Brilliant |
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| And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. |
| - Rupert Brooke |
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| A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. |
| - George Carlin |
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| All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. |
| - Andrew Carnegie |
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| Everything's got a moral if only you can find it. |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones. |
| - René Char |
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| If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go. |
| - Anton Chekhov |
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| A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. |
| - Earl of Chesterfield |
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| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? |
| - John Churton Collins |
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| Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. |
| - Mason Cooley |
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| What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. |
| - Norman Cousins |
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| Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Presence is more than just being there. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. |
| - Anatole France |
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| The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. |
| - François |
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| If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| The highest virtue here may be least in another world. |
| - Kahlil Gibran |
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| When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. |
| - Kahlil Gibran |
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| Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. |
| - André Gide |
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| If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
| - Ursula le Guin |
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| Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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| I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. |
| - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. |
| - Joseph Heller |
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| I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. |
| - Matthew Henry |
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| In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. |
| - Joseph Joubert |
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| What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. |
| - Joseph Joubert |
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| The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
| - Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. |
| - Charles Lamb |
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| The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. |
| - D.H. Lawrence |
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| A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? |
| - Stanislaw J. Lec |
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| Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor. |
| - Abe Lemons |
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| With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. |
| - James Russell Lowell |
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| What we see depends mainly on what we look for. |
| - John Lubbock |
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| Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. |
| - Judith Martin |
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| Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. |
| - Al McGuire |
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| Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." |
| - Charles Edward Montague |
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| An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. |
| - Henry Moore |
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| All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. |
| - John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| A woman who sells herself to buy bread for her aged mother or her child, stands upon a higher moral plane than the blushing maiden who marries a money bag, in order to gratify her frivolous appetite for parties and travel. Of two men, he is the less deceived, the more logical and rational, who pays his companion of an hour in cash, each time, than he who gets a companion for life by the marriage contract, whose society was purchased as much as in the former case. Every alliance between man and woman in which either one is influenced by the substantial or selfish advantage to be gained by it, is prostitution. |
| - Max Nordau |
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| There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. |
| - Alexander Pope |
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| A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| The shadows: some hide, others reveal. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| The reverse side also has a reverse side. |
| - Japanese Proverb |
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| A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck. |
| - Jewish Proverb |
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| Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. |
| - Latin Proverb |
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| I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. |
| - Mexican Proverb |
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| The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. |
| - Russian Proverb |
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| There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. |
| - Mexican Proverb |
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| Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. |
| - Andy Rooney |
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| If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Sin is geographical. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. |
| - S. Sachs |
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| If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. |
| - Carl Sagan |
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| Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. |
| - Saint Francis de Sales |
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| Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. |
| - Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. |
| - Charles Simic |
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| How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. |
| - Socrates |
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| The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. |
| - Herbert Spencer |
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| You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. |
| - Gloria Steinem |
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| Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. |
| - Tom Stoppard |
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| Each moment is a place you've never been. |
| - Mark Strand |
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| The bluebird carries the sky on his back. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. |
| - Bill Vaughan |
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| No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. |
| - Charles Dudley Warner |
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| A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. |
| - E.B. White |
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| Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. |
| - Billy Wilder |
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| Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. |
| - Thornton Wilder |
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| I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance. |
| - Steven Wright |
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