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  • John McGahern Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
    Source: Bertrand Russells best: silhouettes in satire
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Blake Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • T. S. Eliot Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Theroux Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Caity Lotz As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • George Carlin As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Blaine As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Carl Hubbell As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Bodhidharma As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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