Quotes

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Life is to be enjoyed and if it is not,
it makes people ill in one way or another.
 
                     - Louise Bogan
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When the party gets boring
it's time to go home.
                     - Mr. Hollywood
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How can the arts overcome the slow
dying of men's hearts that we call
the progress of the world...?

                     - Yeats
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I must create a system myself or be
enslaved by another man's.

                     - Blake
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
begin it.  Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it.
                     - Goethe
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There are two tragedies in life. 
One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it.
   
                     - George Bernard Shaw
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The only measure of a man's usefulness
is the extent to which he exercises his
talent, according to the laws of his own
growth, for the common good.
 
                     - Stanley Kunitz
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Private faces in public places are wiser
and nicer than public faces in private places.
   
                     - W. H. Auden
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you
back up to look at a painting.

                     - Ed Reinhart
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No matter how hard you throw a dead fish
into the water, it still won't swim.
   
                     - Marian Stevens
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Whenever a rock falls, it is good to
go forward and meet it.  That's the
adventure.
                     - Henry Miller
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It is not down in any map; true places
never are.
                     - Melville
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If one is forever cautious, can one
remain a human being?
                     - Solzhenitsyn
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Only the wildest animals need cages.

                     - Donald Hall
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Horses with free rein will travel
where others have been before.

                     - John Steinbeck
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I don't find any correlation between
size and greatness.
                     - Woody Allen
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Hesitate or fumble and you are done for.
Think only of the jump.

                     - Virginia Woolf
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Some people strengthen the society
just by being the kind of people
they are.
                     - John Gardner
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If you look like your passport photo,
in all probability you need the
journey.
                     - Earl Wilson
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A quart cannot become a gallon.

                     - Malaysian Proverb
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When one doesn't know how to dance,
he says the ground is wet.

                     - Malaysian Proverb
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A knowledge of Sanskrit is of little
use to a man trapped in a sewer.

                     - Tom Weller
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The glad man is he who does not
lose his child's heart.

                     - K'ung Fu-tse
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What is the use of lighting the lamp
if there is no wick?

                     - Malaysian Proverb
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He who requires much from himself and little
from others will be secure from hatred.

                     - K'ung Fu-tse
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An empty bus travels fast.

                     - Tom Weller
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A man who knows that he is a fool
is not a great fool.

                     - Chuang Tzu
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Falling hurts least those who fly low.

                     - Chinese Proverb
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A man with a clear conscience does not
tremble at a midnight knock on his gate.

                    - Chinese Proverb
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If a ruby falls in a puddle,
it will not lose it's luster.

                     - Malaysian Proverb
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Where there is sugar, there are ants.

                     - Malaysian Proverb
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Don't worry about people stealing an idea.
If it's original, you will have to ram it
down their throats.
                      - Howard Aiken
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Because the water is still, you must not
think there is no crocodile there.

                      - Malaysian Proverb
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Three helping one another will do
as much as six men singly.

                      - Spanish Proverb
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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed
of learning.
                      - Danish Proverb
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The only sin is self-hatred.

                      - Paul Williams
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Even a small star shines in the darkness.

                      - Danish Proverb
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The absent are always at fault.

                      - Spanish Proverb
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Nodding the head does not row the boat.

                      - Irish Proverb
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There is no use in your walking five
miles to fish when you can depend on
being just as unsuccessful near home.

                      - Mark Twain
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

                      - Yugoslav Proverb
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He who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know

                      - Lao Tzu
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That which does not kill us
makes us stronger.
                      - Friedrich Nietzche
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I was angry at a friend
I told my wrath; my wrath did end.
I was angry at a foe
I told him not; my wrath did grow.
                     
                      - William Blake
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Religion without science is blind.
Science without religion is lame.

                      - Albert Einstein
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The radical invents the new ideas,
and when he has worn them out
the conservative adopts them

                      - Mark Twain
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Any sufficiently advanced technology would
be indistinguishable from magic.

                      - Arthur C. Clark
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The unreasonable man is the one who expects the world to
adapt to his needs, the reasonable man is the one who adapts
himself to suit the world. Therefore, all progress depends upon
the unreasonable man.

                      - George Bernard Shaw
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I'm not afraid of flying, I'm afraid of crashing.

                      - Neil Simon
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Wait until your father gets home!

                      - Mom