Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Josh Billings A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • André Maurois A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Sir Richard Steele A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Andrew Bernstein A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Margaret Fuller A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hungry man is not a free man.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Moyers A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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