44.Quotes On Fiction:Laughter:Fashion:Manners:Perfection:Reputation:Growth-Part 2

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.." -Arthur C. Clarke-

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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.".-Philip Roth-

"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.".-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.".-Virgil-

"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.".-Charlie Chaplin-

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.".-Kahlil Gibran-

"Jesus wept;Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.".-Victor Hugo-

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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.".-Mark Twain-

"This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.".-Albert Einstein-

"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.".-Colley Cibber-

"In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters;and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.".-Herman Melville-

"Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.".-Alfred E. Smith-

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"A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.".-Henry James-

"Bad manners make a journalist.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.".-Aristotle-

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.".-Kahlil Gibran-

"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.".-Oscar Wilde-

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.".-Charles Austin Beard-

"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.".-Henry Kissinger-

"To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.".-Oscar Wilde-

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.".-Calvin Coolidge-

"We are no longer in a state of growth;we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth;collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.".-Robert Hewison-

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"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.".-Andrew Young-

"Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.".-David Lehman-

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence;and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-

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"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.".-Benjamin Franklin-

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