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  • Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Helen Rowland A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • Karl Marx A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bill Viola A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aesop A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Arthur Keith A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Source: Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Blanka Vlasic A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
    Blanka Vlasic
     
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  • Baruch Spinoza A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Charles Churchill A joke's a very serious thing.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • John Selden A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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