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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James Thurber From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Beeban Kidron From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    Source: The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Ben Affleck God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • A. Alfred Taubman God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Erich Fromm Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • August Strindberg Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Paul E. Little Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Jacob Bronowski Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Bobby Heenan Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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