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  • Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • David Henry Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • George Orwell Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, do not try one but three.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bernard Levin His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Henry Ford Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Bryan Greenberg 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Paul Goodman A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Philip Roth A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Abigail Adams A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
    Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Adrian Edmondson A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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