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  • Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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  • Anna H. Shaw Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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  • Caroline Knapp Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • William Somerset Maugham Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Adam Clarke As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Ernest Renan As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Ben Katchor As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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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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  • Alistair Cooke As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Nora Ephron As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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