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  • Virginia Woolf One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
    Source: The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976)
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Bobby Sherman One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Bill Rancic One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Carlyle One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lew Wallace One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
    Lew Wallace
    American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Publilius Syrus One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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