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Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Author: Boies Penrose
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Luck is the residue of design.
Author: Branch Rickey
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In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.
Author: Brian E. Moore
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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
Author: Bruce Feirstein
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Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
Author: Charles H. Grosvenor
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There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.
Author: Fortune
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You are no better than you should be.
Author: Francis Beaumont
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Author: Fred Allen
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If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Author: Henny Youngman
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Author: Henry Kissinger
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Author: Nelson Henderson
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Author: John Wesley
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.
Author: Gene Fowler
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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.
Author: John Andrew Holmes
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
Author: A. J. Muste
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".
Author: Joyce Kilmer
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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Author: Michael Korda
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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
Author: Darius Ogden Mills
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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
Author: J. G. Ballard
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
Author: George Farquhar
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Author: Fred A. Allen
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Author: Leo Burnett
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Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Author: Jerry Della Femina
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
Author: Tom Morris
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The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
Author: French Proverb
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Author: James F. Cooper
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Author: Ben Elton
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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Author: St. Basil
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Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Author: Diana Black
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Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Author: Bellamy Brooks
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The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
Author: Coltvos
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Author: Lucille S. Harper
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Author: Euripides
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We are the environment.
Author: Charles Panati
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Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
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She concedes that she's the one she pleases.
Author: Kim Carnes
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You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Author: Dan Dierdorf
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Beauty and grace command the world.
Author: Park Benjamin
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
Author: William Cowper
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
Author: Dr. Albert Ellis
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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
Author: Cindy Crawford, Supermodel
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Author: Nick Mirov
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Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
Author: Ed Bluestone
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
Author: Katherine Cebrian
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Author: Jackie Gleason
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
Author: Tom Lehrer
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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Author: Alexander Haig
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Author: Alfred Jarry
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