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Amusing Quotations from Famous People - 7
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Curtis Dahl
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.
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Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side.
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Rogers Turrentine
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.
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Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Matthew Prior
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
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Marilyn Manson
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
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Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Abraham Maslow
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
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Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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Carl Jung
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
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Cornelius Tacitus
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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