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Funny Quotations from Famous People - 31
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Bette Davis
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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Archibald MacLeish
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.
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Joyce
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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W. Somerset Maugham
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
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Malcolm S. Forbes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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William Weld
There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
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Edgar Watson Howe
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
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Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
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Henrik Ibsen
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.
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