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  • Mark Twain No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don DeLillo No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Agnes de Mille No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Rachel Carson No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Israel Zangwill No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ann Landers Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Alice Walker Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • R. Davies Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
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  • Box Brown Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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