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  • Arthur Schwartz For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Brooke Burke Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Barbara Cartland France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
    The Guardian (Dec. 24, 1984)
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
    Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben Huh Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • John Berger Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Abraham Lincoln God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Chapman Cohen Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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  • Bill Hader Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I'm bad at loud restaurants.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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