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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Blair How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
    Robert Blair
    Scottish poet (1699 - 1746)
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  • Anna Freud How can one know anything at all about people?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Aldous Huxley How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Horace How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Allen Tate How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Joseph Conrad How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Wallace Stevens How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Norman Douglas How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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