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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bret Michaels A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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  • Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Carolyn Wells A canner exceedingly canny
    One morning remarked to his granny:
    'A canny canner can can
    Anything that he can
    But a canner can't can a can, can he?'
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Jean Cocteau A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Henry Morgan A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.
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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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  • Barbara Holland A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Burt Lancaster A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Abba Eban A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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