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Humorous Proverbs and Sayings - 95
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Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Richard Lewis
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
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Confucius
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
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William Arthur Ward
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
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Trevor Rook
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
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Theodore Roethke
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
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Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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William Lyon Phelps
This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
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Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
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Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Philip Caldwell
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
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