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  • James Russell Lowell Folks never understand the folks they hate.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Blythe Danner For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Aldous Huxley For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bob Newhart For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Aeschylus For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Plato For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Herman Melville For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Kabbalah Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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