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Henry James
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
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William A. Foster
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
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Jeanne Moreau
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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John Lubbock
The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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Jackie Onassis
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Peter McWilliams
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
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Thomas Jefferson
Information is the currency of democracy.
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George Orwell, 1984
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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Plato
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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John Jay Chapman
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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