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  • Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?
  • In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
  • I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
  • It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
  • Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
  • Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  • I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
  • Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
  • Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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  • Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Montgomery Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Will Durant History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Pauline Kael In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • George Steiner Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Charles F. Kettering My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Nanette Newman A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
    Nanette Newman
    British actress (1934 - )
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  • Abigail Adams A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
    Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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