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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bruce McCulloch However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Allen Klein Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Mary Buckley Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
    Mary Buckley
     
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Fred A. Allen I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Austan Goolsbee I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Bob Dylan I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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