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Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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William Sessions
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
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G. K. Chesterton
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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M. Cartmill
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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Rita Mae Brown
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
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German Proverb
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
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John Lennon
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960
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