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"The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books;and I think no chair is so much needed.." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.".-Franklin P. Adams-
"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"I'm the end of the line;absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.".-Arthur Miller
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.".-Lydia Sigourney-
"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality;it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"I tried to give up drugs by drinking.".-Lou Reed-
"Intellectuals solve problems;geniuses prevent them.".-Albert Einstein-
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.".-Daniel Webster-
"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.".-Mark Twain-
"To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.".-Arthur Miller-
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.".-Babe Didrikson Zaharias-
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.".-Freya Stark-
"Life is largely a matter of expectation.".-Horace-
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.".-Oscar Wilde-
"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.".-Oscar Wilde-
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'".-Alfred Hitchcock-
"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.".-Bob Dylan-
"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.".-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-
"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.".-Francis Bacon-
"If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?".-Bernard Mandeville-
"An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.".-C. Wright Mills-
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