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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Franz Kafka All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Aaliyah All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Forsyth All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
    Sebastian Coe
     
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  • Bradley Joseph All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.
    Source: On running a label Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bonnie Bassler All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Source: Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Gore Vidal American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Omar Khayyam And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help - for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Source: Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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