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  • Douglas Jerrold The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Channing Pollock The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bette Midler The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
    From her album Mud will be Flung Tonight
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Philip Roth The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bill Cosby The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben E. King The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Adam Sandler The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Campbell Brown The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir William Blackstone The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sea! the sea! the open sea!
    The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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