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  • Saki 'The man is a common murderer'.
    'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Bill Hader 'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • J. Seldon 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
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  • Robert Browning 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • William Congreve 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Euripides 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bill Hader 'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Joseph Addison 'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.'
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bill Clinton (George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.
    A Place Called Hope, speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Betty Ford ... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Winston Churchill 1 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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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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