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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
    Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Banville All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Saul Bellow All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Denis Diderot All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Holden All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
    William Holden
    American actor (1918 - 1981)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
    The Integration of the Personality (1939)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Boyle Roche All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Henry Ward Beecher All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Philip Johnson All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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