Quotes with make-believe

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  • Ben Jonson O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Camille Pissarro Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Bob Weir Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Molière Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Charles Sawyer Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
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  • Arnold Bennett Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Bill Watterson Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Sydney Smith Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Fred Astaire Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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