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  • Marcel Proust Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Marcel Proust Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Anaxagoras Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • Bobby Vinton Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Henry Miller Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Rex Harrison Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
    Rex Harrison
    English actor (1908 - 1990)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Jimmy Connors Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Mario Puzo Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brenda Ueland Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Brad Henry Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Paul Goodman Few great men could pass personal.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Michael Caine First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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